gee up

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gee up

interjection

move on!, go faster! Gee up, Dobbin, Gee ho, Dobbin, Gee up, Dobbin, Gee up, and gee ho - o - o!

verb gees up · geeing up · geed up

slang To encourage.
slang To excite in order to try to achieve a desired result. "US fund manager Eric Knight has a fearful reputation as a shareholder activist, geeing up underperforming managements at Royal Dutch Shell and Suez." – HSBC: activist pounces, The Week, 15 September 2007, 631, 43.

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@misc{gee_up_2026,
  title = {gee up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gee%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}