hurry up the cakes
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edithurry 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)
- (US, dated, colloquial, chiefly imperative) Hurry up; get a move on.
- 1862, The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 300:
- 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, […]