hurry up the cakes

verb

Hurry up; get a move on.

Meanings

verbhurry up the cakes (third-person singular simple present hurries up the cakes, present participle hurrying up the cakes, simple past and past participle hurried up the cakes)

present singular third person hurries up the cakes · participle present hurrying up the cakes · participle past hurried up the cakes · past hurried up the cakes

  1. UScolloquialdatedimperativeHurry up; get a move on.

    From the street-boy, who apostrophizes Government with a profanely sandwiched recommendation to 'hurry up the cakes,' up to the grave divine, who in his prayer for the President and Congress, of these mentally adds, […]

    1862, The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 300

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