keyed

Having a key, mated to a keyseat and/or keyway, to either control or prevent movement.

Adjective

  1. Having a key, mated to a keyseat and/or keyway, to either control or prevent movement.
  2. Praiseworthy and admirable, often through exhibiting independence and security; based.
    • OP is keyed as fuck
    • Holy keyed.

    Synonyms: based

    Antonyms: cringe locked unkeyed unbased

  3. Intoxicated by recreational or illegal drugs; drunk or high.
    • [Chorus:Michael Marshall] I got 5 on it (got it, good), grab your 40 let’s get keyed. I got 5 on it, messin’ with that Indo weed. - 1995 July 4, “I got 5 on it”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz and Michael...

Origin

* (praiseworthy and admirable): Coined by 4chan users upset at the widened usage of based (“praiseworthy and admirable, particularly in a perceived countercultural sense”) outside of their community. Most likely simply from the verb key; in slang perhaps connected to the "securing" action of a lock and key (compare e.g. scored).

Forms

more keyed most keyed

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of key

Derived

keyed bugle keyed fiddle keyed up low-keyed nonkeyed unkeyed