get

verb

1. (ditransitive, transitive)To obtain; to acquire.

   “I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.”

   “Lance is going to get Mary a ring.”

2. (transitive)To receive.

   “I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.”

   “He got a severe reprimand for that.”

   “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.”

3. (transitive)To have. See usage notes.

   “I've got a concert ticket for you.”

   “"Yeah, and I got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you," was Peter's response to his wife.”

4. (transitive)To fetch, bring, take.

   “Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?”

   “I need to get this to the office.”

   “Get thee out from this land.”

   “He[…]got himself[…]to the strong town of Mega.”

5. (copulative)To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).

   “Near-synonyms: become, turn, go, come, fall, grow, wax”

   “I'm getting hungry; how about you?”

   “I'm going out to get drunk.”

   “November 1, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.”

   “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.”

6. (transitive)To cause to become; to bring about.

   “That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.”

   “I'll get this finished by lunchtime.”

   “I can't get these boots off.”

   “I can’t get my hands warm.”

   “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.”

7. (transitive)To cause to do.

   “Somehow she got him to agree to it.”

   “I can't get it to work.”

   “I can't get it working.”

   “I can’t get my kids to go to bed early.”

   “Get him to say his prayers.”

8. (transitive)To cause to come or go or move.

   “I got him to his room.”

   “Get thee behind me.”

9. (intransitive, usually)To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).

   “The actors are getting into position.”

   “When are we going to get to London?”

   “I'm getting into a muddle.”

   “We got behind the wall.”

10. (transitive)To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

    “to get a mile”

11. (catenative, intransitive)(with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).

    “We ought to get moving or we'll be late.”

    “After lunch we got chatting.”

    “I'm getting to like him better now.”

12. (transitive)To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

    “I normally get the 7:45 train.”

    “I'll get the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston.”

13. (transitive)To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

    “Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.”

14. (catenative, intransitive)(with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).

    “I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!”

    “The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure.”

    “Great. I get to clean the toilets today.”

15. (informal, transitive)To understand. (compare get it)

    “Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny.”

    “I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!”

    “I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me.”

16. (informal, transitive)To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).

    “"You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot."”

    “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.”

17. (auxiliary, informal)Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.

    “He got bitten by a dog.”

    “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.”

18. (impersonal, informal)Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.

    “You get some very rude people here.”

    “It was the kind of shop you used to get in most small towns.”

    “He thinks that proper to northern man is the cellular composition, you know, the kind of thing one gets in Celtic ornamentation, for example, which a subject that interests him greatly.”

    “You get non-binary people – you get people who don't identify as a man or a woman.”

    “It was a terrible place to live. You get places like that. It is just the way it is.”

19. (transitive)To become ill with or catch (a disease).

    “I went on holiday and got malaria.”

20. (informal, transitive)To catch out, trick successfully.

    “He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time.”

21. (informal, transitive)To perplex, stump.

    “That question's really got me.”

22. (transitive)To find as an answer.

    “What did you get for question four?”

23. (informal, transitive)To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.

    “The cops finally got me.”

    “I'm gonna get him for that.”

24. (transitive)To hear completely; catch.

    “Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?”

25. (transitive)To getter.

    “I put the getter into the container to get the gases.”

26. (archaic)To beget (of a father).

    “I had rather to adopt a child than get it.”

    “Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself / Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!”

    “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.”

27. (archaic)To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.

    “to get a lesson;  to get out one's Greek lesson”

    “it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty”

28. (imperative, informal)Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.

    “Get her with her new hairdo.”

    “Brother, get her! Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur!”

    “Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.”

29. (imperative, informal, intransitive)To go, to leave; to scram.

    “Get, now — get! — before I call an officer and lay a charge against ye.”

    “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.”

    “'Go on, get. You look a state. We can't let Leo see you like that.'”

    “Now go on, get! Get! Get! (she chases Joanne out the door with the hammer.)”

    “"[…] 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.”

30. (euphemistic)To kill.

    “They’re coming to get you, Barbara.”

    “He got Dancer and Prancer with an old German Luger And he slashed up Dasher just like Freddy Krueger”

31. (intransitive, obsolete)To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

    “We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.”

32. (transitive)To measure.

    “Did you get her temperature?”

33. (transitive)To cause someone to laugh.

    “It gets me every time!”

noun

1. (dated)Offspring, especially illegitimate.

   “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.”

   “You must admit that the bastard get of Paul Atreides would be no more than juicy morsels for those two [tigers].”

   “‘You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’”

2. Lineage.
3. A difficult return or block of a shot.
4. (informal)Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.

   “I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.”

5. (Internet)A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
6. (Ireland, UK, regional)Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).

   “Kylie: Oi, Bono! You lazy get! Have you finished my song yet?”

7. (Judaism)A Jewish writ of divorce.

   “In Israel, rabbinic courts can imprison men until they acquiesce and grant gets to their wives.”

8. A member of the Getae.