verb
start to be active
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Get cracking, please!
• Syn: ↑bestir oneself, ↑get going, ↑get moving, ↑get weaving, ↑get started, ↑get rolling
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get cracking
To get moving quickly
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Main Entry: ↑crack
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to start doing something or going somewhere immediately
We’ll have to get cracking if we want to get there before dark.
Thesaurus: to start doing somethingsynonym
Main entry: crack
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informal act quickly and energetically
most tickets have been snapped up, so get cracking if you want one
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get cracking
informal : to start doing something
You ought to get cracking [=get going; get moving] on that assignment. [=you should start working on that assignment right away]
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Main Entry: ↑crack
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Main Entry: ↑get
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get ˈcracking idiom
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There's a lot to be done, so let's get cracking.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.