hurry
158 synonyms found
- accelerate
- air speed
- bolt
- brouhaha
- bundle
- bustle
- buzz about
- career
- celerity
- chase
- cheer on
- commotion
- crowd
- dart
- dash
- dash off
- dash on
- dig out
- dispatch
- disquiet
- disturbance
- dither
- double-time
- drive on
- eagerness
- ebullience
- ebullition
- eddy
- effervescence
- egg
- egg on
- embroilment
- expedite
- expedition
- expeditiousness
- feery-fary
- ferment
- fermentation
- festinate
- flight
- fling
- flit
- flurry
- flutter
- fly
- forward
- fume
- get cracking
- get going
- get moving
- goad on
- ground speed
- haste
- hasten
- hasten off
- hasten on
- helter-skelter
- hie
- hie on
- hound on
- hump
- hump it
- hurly-burly
- hurry about
- hurry along
- hurry away
- hurry on
- hurry through
- hurry up
- hurry-scurry
- hurtle
- hustle
- hustle up
- instantaneousness
- knots
- light out
- lightning speed
- lose no time
- make a fuss
- make haste
- miles per hour
- move quickly
- nip
- nip off
- pell-mell
- perturbation
- plunge
- pother
- precipitate
- press
- press on
- promptitude
- promptness
- push
- push on
- push through
- quicken
- quickness
- railroad through
- rapidity
- root on
- round pace
- rpm
- ruffle
- rush
- rush about
- rush along
- rush around
- rush through
- rustle
- scamper
- scamper off
- scoot
- scour
- scramble
- scud
- scurry
- scuttle
- shake a leg
- shoot
- skedaddle
- skin out
- snappiness
- speed along
- speed on
- speed up
- speediness
- spur
- spur on
- spurt
- stampede
- step on it
- stir
- sweat
- swift rate
- swiftness
- swirl
- swirling
- tear around
- tear off
- tear out
- to-do
- tumult
- turbulence
- turmoil
- upset
- urge
- urge on
- urgency
- velocity
- vortex
- whip along
- whip off
- whip on
- whirl
- whiz about
- whiz off
- yeastiness
Definition
(n) :
rushed action. When one is "in a hurry" (adverbial phrase) it means one is doing things quickly and often impatiently; in American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play
(v) :
to do things quickly; to speed up the rate of doing something
"he's hurrying because he's late."