giddyup

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

   Synonyms: hyah, gee up

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

   Not expecting any traffic, he giddyuped them onto the main road.

   2011, Janet Dailey, Foxfire Light, →ISBN, page 30

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   If I could rule the world, everyone would have a gun / In the ghetto, of course, when giddy-upping on their horse

   1996, “Ready or Not”, in The Score, performed by Fugees

2. broadlyTo 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.

   2012, Celine Kiernan, Into the Grey, →ISBN

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   “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."

   2012, Thaddeus Deluca, At Bully Hills: Confessions of an American Oxycontin Addict, →ISBN, page 32