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get a wriggle on en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To hurry up.
    • Informed our hostess a thousand times we had to leave early, and do you think she'd get a wriggle on with the tea ? 1928-29, Jack Lindsay and Percy Reginald Stephensen, The London Aphrodite: a miscellany of poems, stories, and essays by various hands eminent or rebellious, London, The Fanfrolico Press, pg. 218
    • While accepting he needs to get a wriggle on, Australia's annual great hope remains defiant and insists he can overcome a nightmare draw and once again challenge for the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup. 2008 January 13, Darren Walton, “Don't write me off”, in The Advertiser:

Forms

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

Synonyms

get a wiggle on