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Stoked vs Hyped - What's the difference?

stoked | hyped |

As verbs the difference between stoked and hyped

is that stoked is past tense of stoke while hyped is past tense of hype.

As an adjective stoked

is feeling excitement or an exciting rush.

stoked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (stoke)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Feeling excitement or an exciting rush.
  • * 1964 , '', 3 December 1964. Quoted in Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language , second edition, 1966, chapter XI, end of section 2, page 255.
    • When you're driving hard and fast down the wall, with the soup curling behind yer, or doing this backside turn on a big one about to tube, it's just this feeling. Yer know, it leaves yer feeling stoked .

    hyped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hype)

    • hype

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Promotion or propaganda; especially, exaggerated claims.
    • After all the hype for the diet plan, only the results ended up slim.

    Verb

    (hyp)
  • To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.
    • They started hyping the new magazine months before its release.