giddap

British  

/ ˌɡɪdɪˈʌp, ɡɪˈdæp /

interjection

1. an exclamation used to make a horse go faster

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Etymology

Origin of giddap

C20: colloquial form of get up

Example Sentences

With a giddap from FCC, it took a few tentative commercial steps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because that canny Scot, James Ramsay MacDonald will rush into no experiments, to the infinite distress of Britain's Hearstian press peers, they used the President's speech as a whip to make the Prime Minister giddap.

From Time Magazine Archive

I. Wren tried five times to make Ortlieb jump the last fence, finally got him to "creep" over it by walking him up to the jump and shouting "giddap."

From Time Magazine Archive

The help have caught the spirit, too; The hired man takes off his cap Before the old red, white and blue, Then to the horses says: "giddap!"

From Just Folks by Guest, Edgar A. (Edgar Albert)

With a loud "giddap" they started with a bound, missing Pepper by a hair's breadth, and driving on down the road at a rattling pace.

From The Boy Scouts Patrol by Victor, Ralph