pressen

german!

refers to finishing an exercise, project, term paper or similar under extreme (time) pressure.

under these circumstances, 'pressen' especially refers to writing/doing something without sufficient thinking, so the results might be sub-optimal.

'PRESSen' is related to 'PRESSure'.

A: "Alter, du hast nur noch zweit Tage bis zum Abgabetermin!"

B: "Was soll's? Ich muss das jetzt pressen!"