Usually means: Excited or nervous, highly strung.
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  1. keyed up: Merriam-Webster
  2. keyed up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Keyed-Up, keyed-up: Wordnik
  4. keyed up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. keyed up: Wiktionary
  6. keyed up: Dictionary.com
  7. Keyed Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. keyed up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. keyed up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. keyed up: Idioms

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  1. Key'ed Up, keyed up: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Nervous; worried.

Similar:
nervous, edgy, as nervous as a witch, jittery, twitchy, careful, uptight, stressy, nervous as a cat, shaky, more...

Opposite:
relaxed, calm, mellow, laid-back, easygoing

Phrases:
been keyed up, being keyed up, is keyed up, was keyed up, were keyed up, more...

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Similar:
nervous, edgy, as nervous as a witch, jittery, twitchy, careful, uptight, stressy, nervous as a cat, shaky, more...

Opposite:
relaxed, calm, mellow, laid-back, easygoing

Phrases:
been keyed up, being keyed up, is keyed up, was keyed up, were keyed up, more...



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