gee up
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Interjection
- (directed at a horse) move on!, go faster!
- 1850, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in David Copperfield:
- Gee up, Dobbin, Gee ho, Dobbin, Gee up, Dobbin, Gee up, and gee ho - o - o!
- 1961, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, chapter 1, in Dead Souls, →ISBN:
- "Gee up!" The horses roused themselves and pulled the light carriage along as though it were a feather
- 1996, Andrew Lang, The Yellow Fairy Book Big Klaus and Little Klaus, →ISBN
- He kept on cracking his whip, and calling out, "Gee-up, my five horses!"
Translations
direction to a horse — see giddyup
Verb
gee up (third-person singular simple present gees up, present participle geeing up, simple past and past participle geed up)
- (slang) to encourage
- (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.