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gee up

intj

Definitions

  1. move on!, go faster!

    • Gee up, Dobbin, Gee ho, Dobbin, Gee up, Dobbin, Gee up, and gee ho - o - o!
    • There he sat and kicked away and cried: " Gee up, gee up! " to his nag.
    • "Gee up!" The horses roused themselves and pulled the light carriage along as though it were a feather

  2. To encourage.

  3. To excite in order to try to achieve a desired result.

    • "US fund manager Eric Knight has a fearful reputation as a shareholder activist, geeing up underperforming managements at Royal Dutch Shell and Suez." – HSBC: activist pounces, The Week, 15 September 2007, 631, 43.

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