Shake a leg, quaintly

The answer

HIE

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HIE answer page.

Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HIE

Every other clue in this collection answered by HIE, most used first.

• Hasten - used 129 times, most recently in 2026
• Hurry - used 98 times, most recently in 2023
• Go quickly - used 67 times, most recently in 2023
• Rush - used 49 times, most recently in 2023
• Make haste - used 46 times, most recently in 2022
• Get a move on - used 45 times, most recently in 2021
• Go in haste - used 37 times, most recently in 2024
• Step on it - used 32 times, most recently in 2022
• Speed - used 30 times, most recently in 2021
• Shake a leg - used 28 times, most recently in 2016
• Hotfoot it - used 24 times, most recently in 2016
• Make tracks - used 19 times, most recently in 2008
• Move quickly - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Move it - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
• Skedaddle - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Hurry, old-style - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Hurry, quaintly - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Get the lead out - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Hustle - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Move hastily - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Hotfoot it, old-style - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Hurry along - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Waste no time - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Belt along - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Go quickly, quaintly - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Leave quickly - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Quicken the pace - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Scoot - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Scurry - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Take off in a hurry - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Shake up - JAR, used 46 times
• Leg, in slang - GAM, used 37 times
• Leg, slangily - GAM, used 25 times
• Pinup's leg - GAM, used 24 times
• Over there, quaintly - YON, used 19 times
• Shake - JAR, used 18 times

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