A couple of sheep a ram agitated (5)
I believe the answer is:
hetup
'a ram agitated' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'a couple of sheep' is the wordplay.
'a couple of' becomes 'he' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sheep' becomes 'tup' (tup is a kind of sheep).
'he'+'tup'='HETUP'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for hetup that I've seen is " Angry".)