Regional past participle of 'heat'; heated up or agitated, often in the phrase 'het up'.
From heated, with the -ed ending simplified to -et, then to 'het.' Common in dialectal English, particularly American regional speech. Represents a natural phonetic evolution in casual speech.
This little word shows how language naturally streamlines itself - 'heated up' became 'het up' through the same process that gave us 'dreamt' from 'dreamed.' It's linguistic efficiency in action, cutting away syllables we don't really need.
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