order up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.44 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
Especially at restaurants, called when someone's food order is ready to be retrieved or served.
Example Sentences
- ""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!""
- "“Order up!” yelled Carlos from the kitchen."
- "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."
- "His unit was ordered up last Tuesday."
- "I ordered up a plate of ribs for us."