To go faster, especially when driving; used as an urgent command to hurry up.
Go faster! Hurry up!
2 meanings, ordered from most common to least. Color-coded by CEFR level.
To drive faster; to press the accelerator in a vehicle.
""Step on it!" she shouted to the taxi driver. "We're going to miss the flight!""
Step on it, Ringo!
— Pulp Fiction (1994), dir. Quentin Tarantino
To hurry up; to do something more quickly in any context.
"If you don't step on it, we'll be late for the meeting."
To press down on 'it' — the accelerator pedal of a vehicle.
Go faster! Hurry up!
Almost always used as an imperative. Originally referred to pressing the accelerator pedal in a car. Now used more broadly to mean hurrying in any context. Very common in American English and in films/TV dialogue.
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