hurrying up the cakes
hurrying up the cakes is the present participle and gerund of hurry up the cakes.
Meaning of hurry up the cakes
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)
- 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
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- Hurrying up the cakes is the present participle and gerund of hurry up the cakes.
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