order up

English

Interjection

order up

  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 9781589190993), 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!"
    • 2009, B. C. Legans, Cerro, iUniverse (ISBN 9781440157127), page 31
      “Order up!” yelled Carlos from the kitchen.
    • 2015, Yahong Zhang, Dennis F. Galletta, Human-computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations, Routledge (ISBN 9781317468387), 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.

Verb

order up (third-person singular simple present orders up, present participle ordering up, simple past and past participle ordered up)

  1. To summon for military duty.

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