Definition of "get"

get¹

/ɡɛt/

verb
third-person singular simple present gets, present participle getting, simple past got or (archaic) gat, past participle got or (United States, Canada) gotten or (Geordie) getten
1. (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
2. (transitive) To receive.
  Quotations
  Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients, page 175
3. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
4. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
  Quotations
  Get thee out from this land.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 31:13
  He […] got himself […] to the strong town of Mega.
  1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, page 634
5. (copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
  Quotations
  His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
  November 1, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
  Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients, page 175
6. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  Quotations
  Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients, page 6
7. (transitive) To cause to do.
  Quotations
  Get him to say his prayers.
  c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii], page 268
  Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
  1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings
8. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
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  Get thee behind me.
  1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Retro me, Sathana !”, in Ballads and Sonnets, page 252
9. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
10. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
11. (intransitive) To begin (doing something or to do something).
12. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
13. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
14. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
15. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
16. (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
  Quotations
  Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl.
  2011, “You Probably Get That A Lot (Elegant Too Remix)”, in They Might Be Giants (music), Album Raises New and Troubling Questions
17. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  Quotations
  Of particular importance is the bureaucratic organization of European judiciaries. The judiciary is a career. You start at the bottom and get assigned and promoted at the pleasure of your superiors.
  2003, Richard A. Posner, Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy‎, page 95
18. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
19. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
20. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
21. (transitive) To find as an answer.
22. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
23. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
24. (transitive) To getter.
25. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
  Quotations
  I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii], page 314
  Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself / Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii], page 4
  Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.
  2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 310
26. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  Quotations
  it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
  1662, John Fell, The life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond, page 96
27. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  Quotations
  Brother, get her! Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur!
  1966, Dorothy Fields (lyrics and music), “If My Friends Could See Me Now”
  Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.
  2007, Tom Dyckhoff, Let's move to ..., The Guardian
28. (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
  Quotations
  Get, now — get! — before I call an officer and lay a charge against ye.
  1991, Theodore Dreiser, T. D. Nostwich, Newspaper Days, University of Pennsylvania Press, page 663
  I had a sneaking suspicion that it wasn't no flashlight and I wasn't too curious, just then, to find out what would happen if he did more than wave it at me, so I got. I went back about twenty feet or so and watched.
  1952, Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds, Me and Flapjack and the Martians
  'Go on, get. You look a state. We can't let Leo see you like that.'
  2010, Sarah Webb, The Loving Kind, Pan Macmillan
  Now go on, get! Get! Get! (she chases Joanne out the door with the hammer.)
  2012, Paul Zindel, Ladies at the Alamo, Graymalkin Media
  " […] and then I'll switch over to the police band to know when the bacon's getting ready to stick its nose in. When I tell you to get, you get, understand?" Calamity asks as she retapes the earbud into her ear.
  2016, April Daniels, Dreadnought, Diversion Books
29. (euphemistic) To kill.
30. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  Quotations
  We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.
  1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii], page 112
31. (transitive) To measure.
32. (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
noun
plural gets
1. (dated) Offspring.
  Quotations
  At the time when I am making these observations, one of his colts is the first favourite for the Derby; and it will be recollected, that a filly of his get won the Oaks in 1808.
  1810, Thomas Hornby Morland, The genealogy of the English race horse, page 71
  You must admit that the bastard get of Paul Atreides would be no more than juicy morsels for those two [tigers].
  1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
  ‘You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
  1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 755
2. Lineage.
3. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
4. (informal) Something gained; an acquisition.
  Quotations
  I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.
  2008, Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion, page 73

get²

/ɡɛt/

noun
plural gets
1. (Britain, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”)
  Quotations
  Kylie: Oi, Bono! You lazy get! Have you finished my song yet?
  1990 January 13, David Quantick, Steven Wells, “Is It Rock Art Or Is It Nart?”, in New Musical Express

get³

/ɡɛt/

noun
plural gets or gittim or gitten
1. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
  Quotations
  In Israel, rabbinic courts can imprison men until they acquiesce and grant gets to their wives.
  2013, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, George D. Chryssides, Dawoud El-Alami, Love, Sex and Marriage, page 143

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