Definition of "antsy" []

• Slang Restless or impatient; fidgety: The long wait made the children antsy. (adjective)
• Slang Nervous; apprehensive: "Camps got shot up all the time, but if there wasn't a shoot-up, they'd get antsy” ( Harper's). (adjective)

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• "The mood in the room seemed loose, but the word "antsy" was used pretty often."
• "There is still a sort of moral consensus that defines certain subjects as "delicate", gets kind of antsy when such topics are broached, but the consensus seems to have shifted from a conservative default to a liberal one."
• "That Champaign* at the back of my fridge is looking sort of ... "antsy"."