After losing the project files, the whole team found themselves up the creek and scrambled to restore the data.

He was so wound-up before the exam that he couldn't sleep the night before.

Before the long ride, I checked the pumped-up tire to make sure it wouldn't go flat.

She walked into the meeting in a jazzed up blazer that instantly lifted everyone's mood.

After the robbery went wrong, he was banged up for three years.

He banged up his car when he hit the curb last night.

During the late 1990s, dial-up was the only way many households could connect to the internet, and waiting for the connection to establish felt like an eternity.

Our field office still relies on a dial-up connection for sending daily reports.

She did a bang-up job organizing the fundraiser.

A wha-up probed the muddy shoreline with its long bill at low tide.