Definitions for hurry-up

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hurry-up hur·ry-up

Spelling: [hur-ee-uhp, huhr-]

IPA: /ˈhɜr iˌʌp, ˈhʌr-/

Hurry-Up is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in hurry-up (-hprruuy).

Definitions for hurry-up

adjective

1. characterized by speed or the need for speed; quick:

verb (used without object)

1. to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up):

verb (used with object)

1. to drive, carry, or cause to move or perform with speed.
2. to hasten; urge forward (often followed by up).
3. to impel or perform with undue haste:

noun

1. a state of urgency or eagerness:
2. hurried movement or action; haste.

Origin of hurry-up

First recorded in 1885-90; adj. use of verb phrase hurry up

Examples for hurry-up

Don't miss it—or they'll drag you there in the hurry-up wagon.

The manager was crazy, and told him to send for a hurry-up wagon, and run us all in.

They had, he says, “the kind of considered exchange to which email is now doing such chatty, hurry-up violence.”

"We were giving Abdul a 'bit of hurry-up up' at Quinn's," he said.

Seems like there was some hurry-up reason that she explained to you private.

I also found that I was being sent on all the hurry-up work.

I'll come out about two-thirty and pay a hurry-up five-minute call.

It was rather late on the following afternoon that Florence received a hurry-up call from Danby Force.

It was only when I was on the "hurry-up," however, that I worked alone.

And that is forcing both presidential campaigns to play what might be called a hurry-up offense.