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gotten a wriggle on

gotten a wriggle on is the 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 gotten a wriggle on

What is gotten a wriggle on the past participle of?
Gotten a wriggle on is the past participle of get a wriggle on.

Words near gotten a wriggle on in the dictionary

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

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