# get on
## English
### Verb

get on (third-person singular simple present gets on, present participle getting on, simple past got on, past participle (UK) got on or (US) gotten on)
* (transitive, intransitive) To board or mount (something), especially a vehicle.
    Please get on the bus as quickly as possible.
    She has no trouble getting off a bus but has difficulty getting on.
    I had to get on a chair to change the light bulb.
* (intransitive) To cope or manage (over time); to handle a situation; to perform or make progress.
    John is really getting on at work.
    I hear John has a new job. How's he getting on?
    She's getting on very well at school.
* (intransitive, often with "with") To progress (with); to move forward.
    It's time to get on with improving quality.
    We've wasted enough time now. Can we get on, please?
** (intransitive, of time) To move forward so as to approach a deadline or become late in the day.
    Time is getting on. We need to hurry up or we'll miss our flight.
    The hour is getting on. It'll be dark soon.
* (intransitive, with "for", usually in continuous tenses) To approach (a value, level, point in time, etc.)
    The cost was getting on for a thousand pounds.
    It was getting on for midnight before I went to bed.
* (intransitive, usually in continuous tenses) To become old.
    My parents are visibly getting on a bit these days.
* (intransitive, chiefly UK, often with 'with') To have a good relationship; to get along.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […] ”
    John doesn't get on with Jack. They're always arguing.
    I wish you and I could learn to get on.
* (intransitive, chiefly UK, with 'with') To cope or deal (with).
    I can't get on with prunes. They give me indigestion.
* (transitive) To commence (an action).
    The dishes need washing, the floor needs vacuuming, the laundry needs folding. Get on it!
* (slang, archaic, transitive, gambling) To place a bet on.
    to get on a horse or a man
* (African-American Vernacular) Synonym of have on
* (slang) To have sex; to be sexually promiscuous.
* (slang) To do drugs; to get drunk; to buy drugs; to regularly use drugs.
* (slang) To observe or notice.
    Get on that guy!

#### Synonyms

* (to board a vehicle): board, climb on, embark, get on board, get onto, mount
* (to enter a vehicle): board, embark, get onboard
* (to handle): handle, cope, manage, get by, fare, perform, progress
* (to become late): get late.
* (to become old): age, become old, get old; see also Thesaurus:to age.
* (to have a good relationship): get along, understand each other or understand one another

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “to board a vehicle”): alight from, climb down from, climb off, disembark, exit, get down from, get off, get out of, leave
* (antonym(s) of “to enter a vehicle”): alight, climb down, disembark, exit, get down, get off, get out, leave

#### Derived terms

* get on like a house on fire
* getting on for

#### Translations
### Interjection

get on!
* Expresses surprise or disbelief.

### See also

* get
* get in
* get into
* get off
* get on board
* get on to
* get onto
* get on with

### Anagrams

* G-note, Tonge, tonge