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get a wiggle on en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To hurry up.
    • If it is up to Cricket Australia to come up with rules and regulations, then maybe they would like to get a wiggle on because this thing is about to start. 2008 June 11, "Counties set to defy Modi diktat," indianexpress.com (India) (retrieved 20 May 2011)
    • AMERICAN: My eggs! Get a wiggle on you! WAITER: Yes, sare. 1915, John Galsworthy, The Little Man, sc. 1:
    • “If yeh're goin' to see yer fren', yeh better get a wiggle on. He won't last long.” 1907, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 16, in The Brass Bowl:
    • Get a wiggle on you, fellows. We'll never get out at this rate. 1910, Stewart Edward White, chapter 17, in The Rules of the Game:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
getting a wiggle on Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gets a wiggle on Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
got a wiggle on Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got a wiggle on Tense=Past lexicographic
gotten a wiggle on Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic

Synonyms

get a wriggle on