Usually means: Be very nervous or anxious.
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  1. have the wind up: Merriam-Webster
  2. have the wind up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. have the wind up: Wiktionary
  4. have the wind up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. have the wind up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. have the wind up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. have the wind up: Medical dictionary

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  1. have the wind up: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (have the wind up)

verb:  (idiomatic, British) To be frightened or disturbed.

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