order up

1. Especially at restaurants, called when someone's food order is ready to be retrieved or served.

   “Order up!” yelled Carlos from the kitchen.

   2009, B. C. Legans, Cerro, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 31

   2 more examples

   "Order up." She snatched another order ticket from the pickup window and shouted to the women in the kitchen. "Three pigs on a bun! Two fries!"

   2007, Joe Hilley, Night Rain, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 242

   A number of mechanisms have been devised to notify waitstaff that food is ready in the kitchen, ranging from a cook's shouting “Order up!” to bells, numbered lights on the wall, and, most recently, pagers.

   2015, Yahong Zhang, Dennis F. Galletta, Human-computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 126

present singular third person orders up · participle present ordering up · participle past ordered up · past ordered up

1. To summon for military duty.

   His unit was ordered up last Tuesday.

2. transitiveTo place an order for (something).

   I ordered up a plate of ribs for us.