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[ hur-ee-uhp, huhr- ] / ˈhɜr iˌʌp, ˈhʌr- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR hurry-up ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivecharacterized by speed or the need for speed; quick: a hurry-up meal; a hurry-up phone call. Origin of hurry-upFirst recorded in 1885–90; adj. use of verb phrase hurry up Words nearby hurry-uphurricane lamp, hurricane warning, hurried, hurry, hurry-scurry, hurry-up, hurry up and wait, hursinghar, Hurst, Hurstmonceux, Hurston Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hurry-upAnd that is forcing both presidential campaigns to play what might be called a hurry-up offense. It’s Election Month 2012! Early Voting Changes Presidential Landscape|Ben Jacobs|October 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST They had, he says, “the kind of considered exchange to which email is now doing such chatty, hurry-up violence.” My Loves and Letters|Ben Greenman|June 21, 2010|DAILY BEAST Did you write Miss Sanford a hurry-up note within the last few days? Judith of Blue Lake Ranch|Jackson Gregory I'll come out about two-thirty and pay a hurry-up five-minute call. Big Timber|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Make it into tarts, into turnovers or put between hot buttered layers for a hurry-up shortcake. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South|Martha McCulloch Williams Meantime the Old Man grubbed along on a bowl of milk and a piece of apple pie, at a hurry-up lunch-joint. The Clarion|Samuel Hopkins Adams I said, 'Talk quick or you will be in a hurry-up wagon on your way to police headquarters!' Dreamy Hollow|Sumner Charles Britton
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