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got a wriggle on

got a wriggle on is the simple past and past participle of get a wriggle on.

Meaning of get a wriggle on

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To hurry up.
    • Informed our hostess a thousand times we had to leave early, and do you think she'd get a wriggle on with the tea ?1928-29, Jack Lindsay and Percy Reginald Stephensen, The London Aphrodite: a miscellany of poems, stories, and essays by various hands eminent or rebellious, London, The Fanfrolico Press, pg. 218
    Synonyms:
    get a wiggle on

Questions about got a wriggle on

What is got a wriggle on the simple past and past participle of?
Got a wriggle on is the simple past and past participle of get a wriggle on.

Words near got a wriggle on in the dictionary

  1. got a sad on
  2. got a wiggle on
  3. got a word in
  4. got a word in edgeways
  5. got a word in edgewise
  6. got a wriggle on
  7. got about
  8. got above oneself
  9. got across
  10. got across the line
  11. got after

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