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order up

order up interjection: especially at restaurants, called when someone's food order is ready to be retrieved or served.

Interjection

  1. Especially at restaurants, called when someone's food order is ready to be retrieved or served.
    • "Order up." She snatched another order ticket from the pickup window and shouted to the women in the kitchen. "Three pigs on a bun! Two fries!"2007, Joe Hilley, Night Rain, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 242
    • “Order up!” yelled Carlos from the kitchen.2009, B. C. Legans, Cerro, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 31

Verb

order up (third-person singular simple present orders up, present participle ordering up, simple past and past participle ordered up)

  1. To summon for military duty.
    • His unit was ordered up last Tuesday.
  2. (transitive) To place an order for (something).
    • I ordered up a plate of ribs for us.

Forms of order up

third-person singular presentorders up
present participleordering up
past participleordered up
pastordered up

Questions about order up

What does order up mean?
Order up means especially at restaurants, called when someone's food order is ready to be retrieved or served.
What part of speech is order up?
Order up can be an interjection or a verb.

Words near order up in the dictionary

  1. order to show cause
  2. order tree
  3. order trees
  4. order type
  5. order types
  6. order up
  7. order'd
  8. order-consolidation
  9. order-consolidations
  10. order-in-council
  11. order-mark

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