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To hurry up

Hurry \Hur"ry\, v. i. To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry.

To hurry up, to make haste. [Colloq.]

Usage examples of "to hurry up".

From sweetskinned debutantes in rose gardens to toothless harridans who took all his money and kept telling him to hurry up.

Feisal, counting heads, called to the stragglers to hurry up and urged the rest of us to take our places.

No longer did he urge the taxi driver to hurry up but quietly placed the amount of his fare plus a generous tip on the back seat.