In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play
If you hurry to do something, you start doing it as soon as you can, or try to do it quickly. Mrs Hardie hurried to make up for her tactlessness by asking her guest about his holiday There was no longer any reason to hurry
If you are in a hurry to do something, you need or want to do something quickly. If you do something in a hurry, you do it quickly or suddenly. Kate was in a hurry to grow up, eager for knowledge and experience
If you hurry someone to a place or into a situation, you try to make them go to that place or get into that situation quickly. They say they are not going to be hurried into any decision I don't want to hurry you. = rush
a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door