Usually means: Increase speed to save time.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word hurry up:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. hurry-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. hurry-up, hurry up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hurry-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hurry-up: Wordnik
  5. hurry (sb/sth) up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hurry up: Wiktionary
  7. hurry-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. hurry-up, hurry up: Dictionary.com
  9. Hurry Up (Che'Nelle song), Hurry Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. hurry-up, hurry up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. hurry up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hurry up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hurry up, hurry up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hurry up)

▸ verb:  (emphatic, ambitransitive) To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.

Similar:
hurry, make haste, speed up, hasten, move it, put on, get it on, get a move on, hop to it, hell, more...

Opposite:
slow down, take your time, leisurely

Phrases:
to hurry up, hurry up and wait, telling someone to hurry up, more...

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Similar:
hurry, make haste, speed up, hasten, move it, put on, get it on, get a move on, hop to it, hell, more...

Opposite:
slow down, take your time, leisurely

Phrases:
to hurry up, hurry up and wait, telling someone to hurry up, more...



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