Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - hurry

~1 v 1 to do something or go somewhere more quickly than usual, especially because there is not much time  (The movie begins as six - we'll have to hurry. | hurry through/along/down etc)  (She hurried down the corridor as fast as she could. | hurry after sb)  (John went hurrying off after his girlfriend. | hurry to do sth)  (They were hurrying to catch their train. | hurry sth)  (I don't want to have to hurry my meal.) 2 to make someone do something more quickly  (Don't hurry me; I'm working as fast as I can.) 3 hurry up! spoken used to tell someone to do something more quickly  (Hurry up, we're late! | hurry up with)  (Hurry up with the accounts - the boss is waiting for them.) 4 T always + adv/prep to take someone or something quickly to a place  (hurry sth to/through/across etc)  (Emergency supplies have been hurried to the areas worst hit by the famine.) hurry sb/sth up phr v to make someone do something more quickly or to make something happen more quickly ~2 n 1 be in a hurry to do something, go somewhere, need something etc more quickly than usual, often too quickly  (Sorry, I can't stop, I'm in a hurry. | You'll make mistakes if you do things in too much of a hurry. | be in a hurry to do sth)  (Why are you in such a hurry to leave?) 2 will not be doing sth (again) in a hurry spoken used to say that you do not want to do something again  (We won't be going back there again in a hurry, I can tell you.) 3 in your hurry to do sth while you are trying to do something too quickly  (In his hurry to leave the room he tripped over a chair.) 4 be in no hurry/not be in any hurry to be able to wait because you have plenty of time in which to do something  (I'll wait till you've closed up - I'm not in any hurry.) 5 be in no hurry to do sth/not be in any hurry to do sth to be unwilling to do something or not want to do it soon  (I'm in no particular hurry to leave) 6 (there's) no hurry spoken used to tell someone that they do not have to do something soon  (You can give me the money back next month. There's no great hurry.) 7 what's (all) the hurry?/why (all) the hurry? spoken used to say that someone is doing something too quickly  (We've got plenty of time - what's all the hurry?)