n. Function: verb
1
Synonyms: SPEED 3, accelerate, hasten, quicken, shake up, step up, swiften
2 to proceed or move with dispatch FF1C; hurry home after school FF1E;
Synonyms: barrel, barrelhouse, beeline, bucket, bullet, bustle, ||dust, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, highball, hotfoot, hustle, ||nip, pelt, rock, rocket, run, rush, scoot, scour, ||skeet, skin, smoke, speed, stave, ||tatter, whirl, whish, whisk, whiz, zip; compare RUSH 1
Related Words: jog, peg, skelp, trot; bowl (along), breeze; dig in; post
Idioms: get a move on, go ( or move) like lightning, make tracks, step on it, step on the gas
Contrasted Words: creep, dally, dawdle, drag, lag, linger, loiter, poke, saunter, stroll