get cracking

1. 1.

   start to be active

   “Get cracking, please!”

   Synonymsbestir oneselfget goingget movingget weavingget startedget rolling

   Broaderget down

Questions about get cracking

What does get cracking mean?

get cracking means "start to be active".

What is another word for get cracking?

Close synonyms include bestir oneself, get going, get moving, get weaving, get started. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is get cracking a common word?

get cracking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.