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hurry up the cakes

hurry up the cakes verb: hurry up; get a move on.

Verb

hurry up the cakes (third-person singular simple present hurries up the cakes, present participle hurrying up the cakes, simple past and past participle hurried up the cakes)

  1. (US, colloquial, dated, imperative) Hurry up; get a move on.
    • From the street-boy, who apostrophizes Government with a profanely sandwiched recommendation to 'hurry up the cakes,' up to the grave divine, who in his prayer for the President and Congress, of these mentally adds, […]1862, The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 300

Forms of hurry up the cakes

third-person singular presenthurries up the cakes
present participlehurrying up the cakes
past participlehurried up the cakes
pasthurried up the cakes

Questions about hurry up the cakes

What does hurry up the cakes mean?
Hurry up the cakes means hurry up; get a move on.
What part of speech is hurry up the cakes?
Hurry up the cakes is a verb.
What is the past tense of hurry up the cakes?
The past tense of hurry up the cakes is hurried up the cakes.

Words near hurry up the cakes in the dictionary

  1. hurry
  2. hurry hurry has no blessings
  3. hurry sickness
  4. hurry up
  5. hurry up and wait
  6. hurry up the cakes
  7. hurry-furry merger
  8. hurry-scurried
  9. hurry-scurries
  10. hurry-scurry
  11. hurry-scurrying

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