Pronunciation

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#ORDERUP

Interjection

order upCategory:English lemmas#ORDERUPCategory:English interjections#ORDERUPCategory:English multiword terms#ORDERUPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ORDERUPCategory:Pages with entries#ORDER%20UPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ORDER%20UP

1. Especially at restaurants, called when someone's food order is ready to be retrieved or served.
   • 2007, Joe Hilley, Night Rain, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 242:

     "Order up." She snatched another order ticket from the pickup window and shouted to the women in the kitchen. "Three pigs on a bun! Two fries!"

     Category:English terms with quotations#ORDERUP

   • 2009, B. C. Legans, Cerro, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 31:

     “Order up!” yelled Carlos from the kitchen.

     Category:English terms with quotations#ORDERUP

   • 2015, Yahong Zhang, Dennis F. Galletta, Human-computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 126:

     A number of mechanisms have been devised to notify waitstaff that food is ready in the kitchen, ranging from a cook's shouting “Order up!” to bells, numbered lights on the wall, and, most recently, pagers.

     Category:English terms with quotations#ORDERUP

Verb

order up (third-person singular simple present orders up, present participle ordering up, simple past and past participle ordered up)Category:English lemmas#ORDERUPCategory:English verbs#ORDERUPCategory:English phrasal verbs#ORDERUPCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22up%22#ORDERUPCategory:English multiword terms#ORDERUPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ORDERUPCategory:Pages with entries#ORDER%20UPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ORDER%20UP

1. To summon for military duty.

   His unit was ordered up last Tuesday.Category:English terms with usage examples#ORDERUP

2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ORDERUP) To place an order for (something).

   I ordered up a plate of ribs for us.Category:English terms with usage examples#ORDERUP

Anagrams

• prouder