gee up

intj, verb — 3 senses

gee up

intj

1

move on!, go faster!

Directed at a horse

Gee up, Dobbin, Gee ho, Dobbin, Gee up, Dobbin, Gee up, and gee ho - o - o!1850, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in David Copperfield:
There he sat and kicked away and cried: " Gee up, gee up! " to his nag.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 223:

2 more examples

"Gee up!" The horses roused themselves and pulled the light carriage along as though it were a feather1961, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, chapter 1, in Dead Souls, →ISBN:
He kept on cracking his whip, and calling out, "Gee-up, my five horses!"1996, Andrew Lang, The Yellow Fairy Book, Big Klaus and Little Klaus,, →ISBN:

gee up

verb

1

Slang To encourage.

2

Slang To excite in order to try to achieve a desired result.

"US fund manager Eric Knight has a fearful reputation as a shareholder activist, geeing up underperforming managements at Royal Dutch Shell and Suez." – HSBC: activist pounces, The Week, 15 September 2007, 631, 43.

Antonyms: whoa
Related terms: giddyup, geed up, gee-gee

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