gee up

1. directed at a horsemove on!, go faster!

   There he sat and kicked away and cried: " Gee up, gee up! " to his nag.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 223

   3 more examples

   Gee up, Dobbin, Gee ho, Dobbin, Gee up, Dobbin, Gee up, and gee ho - o - o!

   1850, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in David Copperfield

   "Gee up!" The horses roused themselves and pulled the light carriage along as though it were a feather

   1961, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, chapter 1, in Dead Souls, →ISBN

   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

present singular third person gees up · participle present geeing up · participle past geed up · past geed up

1. slangTo encourage.
2. slangTo 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.