Giddyup

Quick meaning: Giddyup is an interjection meaning (directed at a horse) Move on!, go faster.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. To cause a horse or similar mount to speed up.
2. (by extension) To start moving or move faster; to get a move on.

Example Sentences

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

If I could rule the world, everyone would have a gun / In the ghetto, of course, when giddy-upping on their horse

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.

“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."

Word Forms

• giddy-up
• giddy up
• giddap
• giddup
• giddyap
• giddyups
• giddyuping
• giddyupping
• giddyuped
• giddyupped

Synonyms for giddyup

Depending on context, synonyms include hyah.

Antonyms for giddyup

Common opposites include whoa.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include giddyap, gallop, charge, hurry, spur, put on.

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