hurry up

verb

hurry up

verb

1

Ambitransitive, Emphatic To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.

"Oh, I think I'll just give a look to see if Geoffrey is in sight yet and hurry him up if he is," she called back.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

Synonyms: get a move on, get one's skates on, hurry up the cakes
Derived terms: hurry up and wait, hurry-up offense, hurry-up wagon, on the hurry up

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