Definition of "hypey"

hypey

adjective
comparative hypier, superlative hypiest
1. (informal) Having significant hype; heavily promoted or highly anticipated.
  Quotations
  As able as Boies is, Miller's hyperbole strains credibility. But he's only slightly less hypey than the rest of the media is being with news of Boies's arrival.
  2001, Jake Tapper, Down & Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency, Hachette UK
  The formal is about 95 per cent hype and hysteria, and about 5 per cent actual formal, and the pre-formal gathering of parents and kids is about as hypey and hysterical as it gets.
  2007 September 21, Nina Ubaldi, “Lose the hype and formals can be fun”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎
  "New and improved" is a term of opprobrium in White Flower's catalog, a sarcastic jibe at the garden world's racier, hypier outfits.
  2007, Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, page 208
  With R.E.M., we generally used SonyMDRV6 headphones for Automatic for the People, and they liked them quite a bit because they are a lot hypier.
  2010, Rick Clark, Mixing, Recording, and Producing Techniques of the Pros: Insights on Recording Audio for Music, Film, TV, and Games, 2nd ed, Cengage Learning