Usually means: Rushing to complete something quickly.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word hurry:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. hurry: Merriam-Webster
  2. hurry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hurry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hurry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hurry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hurry, hurry: Wordnik
  7. hurry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hurry: Wiktionary
  9. hurry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hurry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hurry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hurry, hurry: Dictionary.com
  13. hurry (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hurry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hurry (band), Hurry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hurry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hurry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hurry: Rhymezone
  19. hurry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hurry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hurry: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hurry: FreeDictionary.org
  23. hurry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hurry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. hurry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. hurry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hurry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hurry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hurry: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hurry: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Rushed action.
noun:  Urgency.
noun:  (American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
noun:  (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.
verb:  (intransitive) To do things quickly.
verb:  (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
verb:  (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
verb:  (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
verb:  (mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.

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