Vfrdtyky

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From get up or get ye/thee up.

Pronunciation

• 
  (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪdɪˌʌp/, /ˌɡɪdɪˈʌp/
  


• 
  (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪdiˌʌp/
  


• Hyphenation: gid‧dy‧up
  

Interjection

giddyup

1. 
   (directed at a horse) Move on!, go faster!
   

Synonyms

• gee up

Antonyms

• whoa

Translations

Verb

giddyup (third-person singular simple present giddyups, present participle giddyuping or giddyupping, simple past and past participle giddyuped or giddyupped)

1. To cause a horse or similar mount to speed up.
   
   • 
     2011, Janet Dailey, Foxfire Light, →ISBN, page 30:

     Not expecting any traffic, he giddyuped them onto the main road.

     
     
   
   


2. 
   (by extension) To start moving or move faster; to get a move on.
   
   
   
   • 
     2012, Celine Kiernan, Into the Grey, →ISBN:

     But she just kept bopping up and down and telling me to giddyup, so that I had to turn and make my way properly on the stairs for fear of her pulling us both over.

     
     
   
   
   • 
     2012, Thaddeus Deluca, At Bully Hills: Confessions of an American Oxycontin Addict, →ISBN, page 32:

     “Yeah, been partying since I was fourteen, never thought I'd wind-up in a place like this,” I sat there for a moment in quiet reflection, “been high most of my life . . . on one thing or another . . . guess it's time I giddyuped and got going on this clean up my act thing, I've hit the break point . . . gotta' do something . . . do something or it's going to kill me."