The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word HIE , but the solution may also be HUSTLE which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Shake a leg crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HIE | 31 % | 3 |
| MOVE | 15 % | 4 |
| CMON | 14 % | 4 |
| HUSTLE | 11 % | 6 |
| STEPONIT | 7 % | 8 |
| HASTEN | 6 % | 6 |
| SCOOT | 5 % | 5 |
| RUSH | 4 % | 4 |
| MOVEIT | 1 % | 6 |
| STEPLIVELY | 1 % | 10 |
| GALLOP | 1 % | 6 |
| HOTFOOT | 1 % | 7 |
| GETTHEPBOUT | 1 % | 11 |
| LETSGO | 1 % | 6 |
| GETAMOVEON | 1 % | 10 |
Why may HUSTLE be the right solution?
The phrase "Shake a leg" is a colloquial expression that means to hurry up or get moving. "HUSTLE" is the right answer because it is a synonym for moving quickly or working energetically.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shake a leg
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- shake out
- shaking
- shakings
- bowlegged
- shakes
- hind leg
- shake off
- legged
- leg bone
- shook
- shake up
- bowleg
Crossword Answer definitions
HIE noun- Haste; diligence.
- To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
- To hurry (oneself).
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result HIE
- Get a move on
- Step on it
- Get the lead out
- Hasten
- Hurry
- Hurry, old style
- Not dawdle
- Shakespeare's "Move it!"
- Go quickly
- Go rapidly
More clues leading to the result MOVE
- Pull up stakes
- "Shake a leg!"
- QxQ, for one
- Relocate
- Q x Q, for one
- Maneuver
- Turn to play
- Castling in chess, e.g.
- Chess go
- Pick up and go
More clues leading to the result CMON
- "Let's go!"
- Let's go!
- "Let's get out of here!"
- Peer-pressuring word
- "Move!"
- "Quit stallin'!
- "Time's a-wastin'!"
- "Why are you sitting there?"
- "Hurry up!"
- "Whaddya waitin' for?"
More clues leading to the result HUSTLE
- Get-up-and-go
- Move swiftly
- "Charlie __" (Pete Rose nickname)
- Dance #2 for 63-Across
- Try to get a lot of gigs, say
- Shake a leg
- See 67-Across
- Emulate Paul Newman's Eddie Felson
- Do a disco dance
- Step on it
More clues leading to the result STEPONIT
- "Hurry up!"
- Words to a cabbie
- Command to a cabbie
- "Shake a leg!"
- Order to a slow cab driver
- Shout to a slow cabbie
- "Get moving!"
- Hurry
- Shake a leg
- "Get going!"
More clues leading to the result HASTEN
More clues leading to the result SCOOT
- Hightail it
- Hotfoot it
- Go lickety-split
- Motor along the floor
- Move quickly
- Dart
- Go speedily
- Skedaddle
- Shake a leg
- "Get outta here!"
More clues leading to the result RUSH
- First name in talk radio
- __-hour traffic
- First name in pontification
- Hurry
- 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
- Kind of job that 20-Acrosses always feel like
- See 24-Down
- Advance on the gridiron
- Horsetail, for one
- Commuter convergence
More clues leading to the result MOVEIT
- "Get going!"
- "On the double!"
- "Get going now!"
- "Shake a leg!"
- "Go, go, go!"
- "Go!"
- Words to a slowpoke
- "C'mon, slowpoke!"
- "Don't just sit there!"
More clues leading to the result STEPLIVELY
More clues leading to the result GALLOP
- Gait of a horse
- Race pace
- Certain racehorse gait
- Headlong racehorse gait
- Run fast
- Mustang's rate of speed, at times
- Fast gait
- Quick gait
- Ride fast
- Shake a leg
More clues leading to the result HOTFOOT
- Hightail it
- Low-down prank
- Hurry, with "it"
- Shake a leg
- Low-down prank?
- Cruel practical joke.
- Practical joke.
- Go hastily: Colloq.
- Practical joke
- Match prank
More clues leading to the result GETTHEPBOUT
More clues leading to the result LETSGO
- The Student Travel Guide
- Releases
- "What are we waiting for?"
- "Time to roll!"
- "Come on!"
- "Hurry up!"
- "Time to leave"
- "Move it, already!"
- "C'mon!"
- "Move out!"