revved up
Engine roaring, ready
Revved up means excited, energized, or operating at high intensity.
The expression comes from revving an engine—increasing its speed by pressing the accelerator.
Someone revved up about a project is eager and enthusiastic: The team was revved up for the championship game.
A revved-up economy is running at full capacity.
The phrase suggests energy barely contained, ready to be released.
- enthusedFilled with eager excitement
- excitedEagerly anticipating something
- raring to goExtremely keen to begin
- energizedMade lively and alert
- ampedSlang for thrilled
charged up · ignited · turbocharged · pedal to the metal · motivated · fired up · on fire · fueled · accelerated · animated · galvanized · driven · ready to go · all systems go · high-octane · pumped up · invigorated · geared up
- energy metaphorsamped, charged, electric, electrified, jolt
- intensifiedamplified, boosted, enhanced, heightened, increased
- hyperactivityfidgeting, hyper, restlessness, fidgety, restless
- anticipationanticipating, expectation, expectancy, expecting, awaiting
- mental statesknowledge, conscious, mood, anxious, memory
- mood idiomsbad mood, black mood, dark mood, foul mood, in a mood