hurry

  • 41hurry-up — adjective Date: 1902 speeded up ; completed in a hurry < a hurry up dinner > …

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  • 42Hurry Up, Or I'll Be 30 — Infobox Film name = Hurry Up, Or I ll Be 30 image size = caption = director = producer = Joseph Jacoby writer = narrator = starring = Danny Devito music = cinematography = editing = distributor = released = runtime = country = language = English&#8230; …

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  • 43Hurry — This most interesting surname recorded in the spellings of Horrey, Hurry, Hurrey, Orry, Ourry, Urry, and possibly others, is English, although leavened by 17th century French Huguenot entries as shown below. In general the name derives from the&#8230; …

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  • 44hurry\ up — v. phr. To rush (an emphatic form of hurry). Hurry up or we ll miss our plane …

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  • 45hurry — verb (hurries, hurrying, hurried) move or act quickly or more quickly. ↘do or finish (something) quickly. noun great haste. ↘[with negative and in questions] a need for haste; urgency. Phrases in a hurry [usu. with negative] informal easily;&#8230; …

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  • 46hurry — I. v. a. 1. Drive, precipitate. 2. Hasten, expedite, speed, despatch, urge or push forward, urge or press on. II. v. n. 1. Act precipitately, be in a flutter, be in a flurry. 2. Haste, hasten, move quickly, be in haste, be quick, be in a hurry,&#8230; …

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  • 47ˌhurry ˈup — phrasal verb 1) spoken used for telling someone to do something more quickly Hurry up and finish your soup.[/ex] 2) to do something or to move somewhere more quickly, or to make someone do this She wished George would hurry up with her cup of tea …

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  • 48hurry up — verb To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something. Syn: get a move on, get ones skates on …

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  • 49hurry — [16] The earliest known occurrences of the verb hurry are in the plays of Shakespeare, who uses it quite frequently. This suggests that it may have been a word well known to him in his native West Midland dialect, but it is not clear whether it&#8230; …

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  • 50hurry up — do it quickly, make it snappy    Hurry up with the dishes. We want you to play cards with us …

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