hurry up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

hurry up (third-person singular simple present hurries up, present participle hurrying up, simple past and past participle hurried up)

1. (emphatic, ambitransitive) To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.
   • 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

     "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.

Synonyms

• get a move on
• get one's skates on
• hurry up the cakes (US, dated)

Derived terms

• hurry up and wait
• hurry-up offense
• hurry-up wagon
• on the hurry up

Translations

go faster

• Albanian: Shpejtoj
• Belarusian: спяша́цца impf (spjašácca)
• Bulgarian: бързам (bg) (bărzam)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: afanyar (ca), donar-se pressa, fer via (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 快點 / 快点 (zh) (kuàidiǎn), 抓緊時間 / 抓紧时间 (zhuājǐn shíjiān)

• Comorian:

  Ngazidja Comorian: upveza

• Danish: skynde sig
• Esperanto: ek (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kiirehtiä (fi), nopeuttaa (fi), lisätä vauhtia
• French: se dépêcher (fr)
• Galician: date presa
• German: sich beeilen (de)
• Irish: brostaigh (ar), cuir bealadh faoi d'ioscaidí (literally “to grease the backs of one's knees”)
• Italian: affrettarsi (it), sbrigarsi (it), muoversi (it), darsi una mossa (literally “to give oneself a move”), spicciarsi (it)
• Japanese: 急ぐ (ja) (いそぐ, isogu)
• Khmer: ឆាប់ឡើង (chaplaəng)
• Korean: 서두르다 (ko) (seodureuda)
• Latin: festino, propero
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: cepatlah
• Navajo: tsxį́įłgo
• Norwegian: skynde seg
• Polish: spieszyć się (pl) impf
• Portuguese: apressar-se
• Russian: торопи́ться (ru) impf (toropítʹsja), поторопи́ться (ru) pf (potoropítʹsja), спеши́ть (ru) impf (spešítʹ)
• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: greas
• Spanish: apurarse (es)
• Swedish: skynda på (sv), raska på
• Tetum: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tongan: fakatoʻotoʻo
• Turkish: ivme katmak (in a positive sense), acele etmek (tr), hızlanmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: поспіша́ти impf (pospišáty)
• Vietnamese: mau lên, nhanh lên, vội lên
• Volapük: vifikumön (vo)
• Welsh: brysio (cy), siapio (cy), styrio