| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | Agitated, excited movement and activity: flurry, stir1, whirl, whirlpool. See CALM. | | VERB: | 1. To be nervously or uselessly active: fuss, putter. Informal : mess around. See ACTION, CALM. 2. To move swiftly: bolt, bucket, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal : hotfoot, rip. Slang : barrel, highball. Chiefly British : nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See MOVE.
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