order up

Cook's ready shout

Order up is a call announcing that food is ready to be served, traditionally shouted by cooks to waitstaff: Order up! Table seven!

More broadly, to order up something is to request or summon it, often with an implication of ease or authority: The general ordered up reinforcements, She ordered up a car from the app.

Related

menu · call · command · diner · kitchen · back of house · bring · special · to go · on the fly · chef · bespeak · appeal · demand · grill · instruct · ticket · directive

Categories
Opposites
request/command

order upcancel

Revoke or terminate

send back · refuse · decline · reject · return

volume/manner of communication

order upwhisper

Speech without full voice

murmur · mutter · mumble · hold back · keep mum

orchestrating/arranging

order uplet slide

Choose not to address

leave to chance · abandon · neglect · dismantle · go with the flow

Family

order, orders, ordered, ordering, orderly, orderliness, disorder, disordered, disorderly

Familiarity
Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G