Usually means: Hurry up, increase your speed.
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  1. get a move on: Merriam-Webster
  2. get a move on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. get a move on: Collins English Dictionary
  4. get a move on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. get a move on: Wiktionary
  6. get a move on: Dictionary.com
  7. Get a move on: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. get a move on: ESL Idiom Page
  9. get a move on: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. get a move on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. get a move on: Idioms

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  1. get a move on: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (get a move on)

▸ verb:  (informal, idiomatic) To hurry up, to get moving.

Similar:
get it on, get moving, move it, jump to it, get a wriggle on, get a wiggle on, pick up the pace, put on, hurry, get one's skates on, more...

Opposite:
procrastinate, dawdle, delay, linger, loiter

Types:
hurry up, speed up, pick up pace, step on it, shake leg, more...

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Similar:
get it on, get moving, move it, jump to it, get a wriggle on, get a wiggle on, pick up the pace, put on, hurry, get one's skates on, more...

Opposite:
procrastinate, dawdle, delay, linger, loiter

Types:
hurry up, speed up, pick up pace, step on it, shake leg, more...



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