het
adj.adj. very angry, worried, or excited about something. You usually use this in the phrase 'all het up' when someone is making a big deal out of a small problem.
adj. agitated, excited, or angry. Typically appears in the idiomatic construction 'all het up' and functions as a participial adjective derived from a dialectal past participle of 'heat'.
Don't get all het up about the small delay.
He was all het up because the delivery arrived ten minutes later than he expected.
While the rest of the board remained calm, the chairman got all het up over minor clerical errors that had no bearing on the final budget.
Clipping of heterosexual.
From Middle English hette (simple past), het (past participle), from Old English hǣtte (simple past), (ġe)hǣted (past participle), conjugations of hǣtan (“to read”); see heat (“to make hot”).
Used predicatively, almost exclusively following the verb 'get' or 'be' and preceded by 'all'.
He was very het.He was all het up.In modern usage, 'het' is rarely used alone; it almost always requires the intensifier 'all' and the particle 'up'.