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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, 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, 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, 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.

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.

   His unit was ordered up last Tuesday.

2. (transitive) To place an order for (something).

   I ordered up a plate of ribs for us.

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