to move or act more quickly than usual, or to make someone or something do this
If we hurry, we can catch the next bus.
Please hurry and turn off the stove before the soup boils over.
✦ From Middle English ‘hurien’, probably imitative of sudden movement.
a state of great speed or urgent need to act quickly
We're in a real hurry to finish before the rain starts.
There’s no hurry—take your time.
✦ Derived from the verb ‘hurry’, first recorded in the 16th century.
