Definition of "hyped-up" []

• Slang Stimulated with or as if with a hypodermic injection: "hyped-up rhetoric to dramatize the strike” ( New York Times). (adjective)

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• "Conservatives who care about this country and about their own philosophy and ideology should balance Limbaugh's deliberately hyped-up rhetoric with other, more thoughtful positions."
• "Instead, the anniversary serves as a powerful rationale for an informed, precise and moral approach to combating homegrown terrorism, not hyped-up discrimination."
• "It's simply a news media myth made real by robotic repetition to think that anyone is ahead or behind after three of our tiniest and least demographically representative states deliver their hyped-up decisions."