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gee up

gee up interjection: move on!, go faster!

Interjection

  1. (directed at a horse) move on!, go faster!
    • Gee up, Dobbin, Gee ho, Dobbin, Gee up, Dobbin, Gee up, and gee ho - o - o!1850, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in David Copperfield
    • 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

Verb

gee up (third-person singular simple present gees up, present participle geeing up, simple past and past participle geed up)

  1. (slang) To encourage.
  2. (slang) To 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.

gee up meaning in Bengali

gee up in Bengali

উৎসাহ দেওয়া

Antonyms of gee up

Forms of gee up

third-person singular presentgees up
present participlegeeing up
past participlegeed up
pastgeed up

Questions about gee up

What does gee up mean?
Gee up means move on!, go faster!
What is gee up in Bengali?
Gee up in Bengali is উৎসাহ দেওয়া. See Gee up meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is gee up?
Gee up can be an interjection or a verb.

Words near gee up in the dictionary

  1. gee hup
  2. gee pole
  3. gee poles
  4. gee string
  5. gee strings
  6. gee up
  7. gee whillickers
  8. gee whilligers
  9. gee whillikers
  10. gee whillikins
  11. gee whittakers

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