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adjective

    Stupefied, intoxicated, or otherwise influenced by the taking of drugs: drugged. Informal doped. Slang high, lit (up), potted, spaced-out, stoned, turned-on, wiped-out, zonked. See drugs/temperance.

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1.  Relating to a motor, especially a car engine, whose power has been increased. For example, Kids loved to ride around in hopped-up cars. [Slang; mid-1900s] Also see soup up.
2.  Stimulated with, or as if with, a narcotic. For example, Their idea of a good time is to get all hopped up on marijuana or worse. This slangy usage dates from the 1920s but may be related to the late 19th-century use of the noun hop for a narcotic, especially opium.


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IN BRIEF: adj. - Under the influence of narcotics; (of an automobile) having the engine modified to give extra power.

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: (of an automobile) having the engine modified to give extra power

Meaning #2: (informal) under the influence of narcotics
  Synonym: stoned


Translations: Hopped-up
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - peppet op, under indflydelse af narkotika

Français (French)
adj. - amélioré

Deutsch (German)
adj. - berauscht

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (καθομ.) (για άλογα ιπποδρομίας) ντοπαρισμένο(ς), (για αυτοκίνητα κ.λπ.) πουσαρισμένος

Italiano (Italian)
eccitato, truccato (di motore), drogato

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - exuberante, com motor envenenado

Русский (Russian)
ошалевший

Español (Spanish)
adj. - drogado, excitado, arreglado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - upprymd, trimmad (motor), drogad

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
兴奋的, 激动的, 功率增大了的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 興奮的, 激動的, 功率增大了的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 흥분한, 흥분 시키는, 마약을 쓴

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 麻薬で興奮した, 馬力を上げた

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מוגבר (מנוע), מסומם‬


 
 
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