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cranked up

vb. (en-pastcrank up)

Usage examples of "cranked up".

Not just cranked up because of the dead kid on his lawn, which would have been understandable, but nervous.

He laughed again, an old man's cackle cranked up by a young man's giddy excitement.

Among the trees, upon a lawn, someone had cranked up a portable phonograph and now it was playing softly, "I'll be loving you, always, with a love that's true, always.