"hurry up the cakes" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: hurries up the cakes [present, singular, third-person], hurrying up the cakes [participle, present], hurried up the cakes [participle, past], hurried up the cakes [past]
Head templates: {{en-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, dated, colloquial, chiefly imperative) Hurry up; get a move on. Tags: US, colloquial, dated, imperative
    Sense id: en-hurry_up_the_cakes-en-verb-icIMcp4p Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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