"Hurry up and ___"

The answer

WAIT

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WAIT answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2010; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for WAIT

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

• Be patient - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• "Hold on!" - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• Bide one's time - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Cool one's heels - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
• "Hold your horses!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• "Hold up!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Stand in line - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Sit tight - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• "Hold it!" - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Stand by - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Mark time - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• "Hold on a second!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "But ___, there's more!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Tarry - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Delay. - used 8 times, most recently in 1980
• "Hold on a sec!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "Cool your jets" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023

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.

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• Black-and-white cookie - OREO, used 272 times
• Chills and fever - AGUE, used 232 times
• Facts and figures - DATA, used 223 times
• Ages and ages - EONS, used 203 times

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