gee up
Interjection
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Interjection
- (directed at a horse) move on!, go faster!
- 1996, Andrew Lang, The Yellow Fairy Book Big Klaus and Little Klaus, ISBN 0486216748
- He kept on cracking his whip, and calling out, "Gee-up, my five horses!"
- 1996, Andrew Lang, The Yellow Fairy Book Big Klaus and Little Klaus, ISBN 0486216748
gee up
- (slang) to encourage
- (slang) 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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