giddyup

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɡɪdɪˌʌp/
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/ˈɡɪdɪˌʌp/ · /ˌɡɪdɪˈʌp/ · /ˈɡɪdiˌʌp/

Definition of giddyup

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

intj

  1. Move on!, go faster!
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intj

  1. Move on!, go faster!

verb

  1. 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.”
  2. (broadly)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.”
    ““Yeah, been partying since I was fourteen, never thought I'd wind-up in a place like this,” I sat there for a moment in quiet reflection, “been high most of my life . . . on one thing or another . . . guess it's time I giddyuped and got going on this clean up my act thing, I've hit the break point . . . gotta' do something . . . do something or it's going to kill me."”

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Etymology

From get up or get ye/thee up.

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