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giddyupping

giddyupping is the present participle and gerund of giddyup.

Meaning of giddyup

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
  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

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Questions about giddyupping

What is giddyupping the present participle and gerund of?
Giddyupping is the present participle and gerund of giddyup.

Words near giddyupping in the dictionary

  1. giddysome
  2. giddyup
  3. giddyuped
  4. giddyuping
  5. giddyupped
  6. giddyupping
  7. giddyups
  8. Gidea Park
  9. Gideon
  10. Gideonic
  11. Gideonite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: giddyupping (page history and authors); giddyup (page history and authors). 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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