torqued

torqued

Particularly angry and irritated. I was pretty torqued when the one of the designers went over my head on the latest project. Try not to get so torqued over what she said.
See also: torque
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

torqued

(torkt)
1. mod. angry; bent. Now, now! Don’t get torqued!
2. mod. drunk. (A play on twisted.) Mary gets torqued on just a few drinks.
See also: torque
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be torqued off
  • torque
  • torqued off
  • get torqued off
  • torque (one) off
  • get a rise from
  • get a rise from (one)
  • get a rise out of
  • get a rise out of (one)
  • get a rise out of someone
References in periodicals archive
RICHARD SERRA: When I began the Torqued Ellipses, I was concerned less with making one definitive sculpture than with making an entire body of work.
As the single Torqued Ellipses developed into the double Torqued Ellipses and then into the Torqued Spirals, there was more flux in the experience of time.
Torqued Spiral (Right Left) [2003-2004] tends to propel your gait, and you find yourself constantly adjusting the angle of your body in relation to the lean of the curving walls.
OK, that's one set of developments from the prime object of the single Torqued Ellipse.
RS: Right after the early Torqued Ellipses, we built a Snake piece for Princeton University called The Hedgehog and the Fox [1998] where the "S" of the snake was made of torqued elliptical sections, leaning forward and backward.
On "The Matter of Time"
Then another series of tests is begun where the joint is torqued to 75% of the failure point.
Eight steps to precision torque control of fasteners. (Tech Check)