Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) urgent, in emergency.

1905		H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 337: He succeeded in making a hurry-up touch for fifty.
1916		Hall & Niles One Man’s War (1929) 191: He had to land [...] and wait for some hurry-up repairs.
1932		E.S. Gardner ‘Bird in the Hand’ in Goulart (1967) 271: Let them hang the pickpocket rap on Leith for a hurry-up search.
1949		Sun. World-Herald Mag. (Omaha, NE) 13 Feb. 5/2: It is often necessary to make a hurry-up call to a registered donor who is known to have the right type of blood [DA].
1973		G.V. Higgins Digger’s Game (1981) 19: This was hurry-up, and it’s not my usual line of work.