keyed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of key.

   The clerk keyed each invoice number into the database before lunch.

   Someone keyed his car in the parking lot overnight.

   Note

   A regular past form: one spelling serves both "she keyed the lock" and "the lock was keyed." Its uses run from locks and machine parts to telegraph keys, radio transmitters and keyboards. For typing, the particle usually comes along: the figures were keyed in. The same spelling also stands as an adjective, and the engineering sense is this participle settled into a description.

2. 2
   adjective

   Fitted with a key that seats into a matching slot, locking two parts together to control or stop their movement.

   Each pulley is keyed to its drive shaft to transmit torque without slipping.

   The coupling uses a keyed connection rated for high rotational loads.

   Note

   A machinist's word for a joint that cannot slip. A small key sits in a slot cut into each part, so a hub and the shaft it rides on turn together or not at all. It usually takes to (a gear keyed to the shaft) or stands before a noun (a keyed joint, a keyed coupling). The key may transmit motion, or it may simply hold two parts in a fixed orientation.

3. 3
   adjective

   Praiseworthy and admirable, often for showing independence and a secure sense of self.

   OP refused to delete his unpopular take after hundreds of angry replies, and honestly he's keyed for it.

   Standing up for the new kid in front of everyone was a keyed move.

   Similarbased

   Oppositecringe, unbased

   Note

   Internet praise with a grudge behind it. 4chan users coined it when based, their word for the same admiration, spread beyond their community. It most likely comes straight from the verb key. It works as a quick verdict, often with an intensifier (holy keyed, keyed as fuck). Its opposites play the same game: unkeyed, unbased, locked and cringe.

4. 4
   adjectiveslang

   Under the influence of recreational or illegal drugs; drunk or high.

   They passed a blunt around the car and got keyed before walking into the concert.

   They were so keyed they could barely stand up straight.

   Similarhigh, stoned, wasted, baked, blitzed

   Oppositesober

   Note

   Slang from African-American Vernacular English, where being keyed covers alcohol and weed alike. Luniz's "I Got 5 on It" (1995) uses it in an invitation to share malt liquor and get intoxicated, with Indo weed alongside. Like other words for intoxication, it follows get or be. It belongs to casual speech, and it shares nothing with the online word of praise except its spelling.

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