giddyup

Interjection

1. (directed at a horse) Move on!, go faster!

   Synonyms:

   hyah, gee up

Verb

giddyup (third-person singular simple present giddyups, present participle giddyuping or giddyupping, simple past and past participle giddyuped or giddyupped)

1. To cause a horse or similar mount to speed up.
   • If I could rule the world, everyone would have a gun / In the ghetto, of course, when giddy-upping on their horse1996, “Ready or Not”, in The Score, performed by Fugees
   • Not expecting any traffic, he giddyuped them onto the main road.2011, Janet Dailey, Foxfire Light, →ISBN, page 30
2. (broadly) To 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
   • “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...2012, Thaddeus Deluca, At Bully Hills: Confessions of an American Oxycontin Addict, →ISBN, page 32