"gee up" meaning in English

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Interjection

Audio: En-au-gee up.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-interj}} gee up
  1. (directed at a horse) move on!, go faster!
    Sense id: en-gee_up-en-intj-sg~xvrxE

Verb

Audio: En-au-gee up.ogg [Australia] Forms: gees up [present, singular, third-person], geeing up [participle, present], geed up [participle, past], geed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} gee up (third-person singular simple present gees up, present participle geeing up, simple past and past participle geed up)
  1. (slang) To encourage. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-gee_up-en-verb-FCytSq7~
  2. (slang) To excite in order to try to achieve a desired result. Tags: slang Categories (topical): English animal commands Categories (lifeform): Horses Related terms: giddyup, geed up, gee-gee
    Sense id: en-gee_up-en-verb-OAjr7Hk6 Disambiguation of English animal commands: 22 7 71 Disambiguation of Horses: 10 5 85 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (up), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 4 90 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 5 2 93 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 9 4 87 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 16 9 74 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 10 4 86

Inflected forms

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