(informal) Hyped (“excited”). / (slang) Excellent, cool.

(slang) excitement; excellence; coolness

simple past tense and past participle of hype up

plural of hype man

A hip-hop performer responsible for backup rapping and singing and increasing an audience’s excitement with call-and-response chants.

to talk up; to promote extravagantly

(sometimes derogatory) An audience or other group of people who are hyped over something; people who highly and sometimes excessively anticipates something that has been highly advertised and promoted.

Excitement for an event, phenomenon, etc. stirred by the mass media.

Alternative form of hypebeast

present participle of hype up