hurry up

hurry up
I PHRASAL VERB
If you tell someone to hurry up, you are telling them do something more quickly than they were doing.

[V P] Franklin told Howe to hurry up and take his bath; otherwise, they'd miss their train...

[V P with n] Hurry up with that coffee, will you. [Also V it P]

II or hurry along
If you hurry something up or hurry it along, you make it happen faster or sooner than it would otherwise have done.

[V P n (not pron)] ...if you're not a traditionalist and you want to hurry up the process...

[V n P] Petter saw no reason to hurry the divorce along.

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