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step on it

step on it verb: to drive fast; to step on the accelerator.

Verb

step on it (third-person singular simple present steps on it, present participle stepping on it, simple past and past participle stepped on it)

  1. To drive fast; to step on the accelerator.
    • If I step on it, I can still arrive on time.
    • But a signal check at Tollerton was not expected and the driver had to "step on it" thereafter, to reach Darlington, as we did, dead on time.1959 July, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 482
  2. (idiomatic) To act quickly.
    • They'll have to step on it to finish the paper tonight.

step on it meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

step on it in Bengali

দ্রুত চালানো, এক্সিলারেটরে চাপ দেওয়া, দ্রুত কাজ করা

step on it in Malayalam

get a move on, hurry up, speed up
തിടുക്കം കൂട്ടുക, ചവിട്ടിവിടുക, വേഗത കൂട്ടുക, ധൃതിവയ്ക്കുക, തത്രപ്പെടുക, തിരക്കിട്ടു പോകുക

Forms of step on it

third-person singular presentsteps on it
present participlestepping on it
past participlestepped on it
paststepped on it

Origin of step on it

An automobile accelerator is usually a foot pedal, so stepping down harder increases the acceleration.

Questions about step on it

What does step on it mean?
Step on it means to drive fast; to step on the accelerator.
What is step on it in Bengali?
Step on it in Bengali is দ্রুত চালানো, এক্সিলারেটরে চাপ দেওয়া, দ্রুত কাজ করা. See Step on it meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is step on it?
Step on it is a verb.
What is the past tense of step on it?
The past tense of step on it is stepped on it.

Words near step on it in the dictionary

  1. step off
  2. step on
  3. step on a duck
  4. step on a frog
  5. step on a rake
  6. step on it
  7. step on someone's lines
  8. step on someone's toes
  9. step on the gas
  10. step on the laughs
  11. step out

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: step on it (page history and authors); step on it (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); step on it (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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