giddyup

intj
/ˈɡɪdɪˌʌp/UK/ˈɡɪdiˌʌp/US

Etymology

From get up or get ye/thee up.

Definitions

  1. Move on!, go faster!

  2. To cause a horse or similar mount to speed up.

    • If I could rule the world, everyone would have a gun / In the ghetto, of course, when giddy-upping on their horse
    • Not expecting any traffic, he giddyuped them onto the main road.
  3. To start moving or move faster

    To start moving or move faster; to get a move on.

    • But she just kept bopping up and down and telling me to giddyup, so that I had to turn and make my way properly on the stairs for fear of her pulling us both over.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for giddyup. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA