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get a move on

get a move on verb: to hurry up, to get moving.

Verb

get a move on (third-person singular simple present gets a move on, present participle getting a move on, simple past got a move on, past participle (UK) got a move on or (US) gotten a move on)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To hurry up, to get moving.
    • I need to get a move on if I'm going to arrive before dark.
    • Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over. "Time to get a move on," he said, and began unlace his boots for wading.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139
    Synonyms:
    hurry, zoom, get moving

get a move on meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

get a move on in Bengali

তাড়াতাড়ি করা, কাজ শুরু করা

get a move on in Malayalam

speed up, hurry up, move faster
വേഗംചെയ്യൂ, വേഗംവേഗം, തത്രപ്പെടുക, എളുപ്പത്തിലാകട്ടെ, തിടുക്കത്തിലാവട്ടെ, തിരക്കുകൂട്ടുക

Examples of get a move on in a sentence

  • The train was handed over 21 min. late at Salisbury, so there was every encouragement to Driver Moore, of Salisbury, to "get a move on."1951 August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performsnce”, in Railway Magazine, page 554:
  • But we need to get a move on, as Didcot is busy.2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 30:

Synonyms of get a move on

Forms of get a move on

third-person singular presentgets a move on
present participlegetting a move on
pastgot a move on
past participle UKgot a move on
past participle USgotten a move on

Questions about get a move on

What does get a move on mean?
Get a move on means to hurry up, to get moving.
What is get a move on in Bengali?
Get a move on in Bengali is তাড়াতাড়ি করা, কাজ শুরু করা. See Get a move on meaning in Bengali.
How do you use get a move on in a sentence?
The train was handed over 21 min. late at Salisbury, so there was every encouragement to Driver Moore, of Salisbury, to "get a move on."
What part of speech is get a move on?
Get a move on is a verb.
What is the past tense of get a move on?
The past tense of get a move on is got a move on.

Words near get a move on in the dictionary

  1. get a kick out of
  2. get a leg up
  3. get a life
  4. get a line on
  5. get a load of
  6. get a move on
  7. get a pair
  8. get a rise
  9. get a rise from
  10. get a rise out of
  11. get a room

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: get a move on (page history and authors); get a move on (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); get a move on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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