get it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets it
form: getting it
form: got it
form: got it
form: gotten it
form: geddit
form: geddid
Senses: examples: text: If you order the pizza, I'll go get it.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, it.
examples: text: If they aren't getting it, explain it a different way.
text: I thought it was hilarious, but she didn't get it.
text: Hey, I get it — interpersonal diplomacy can be challenging. But we must at least try.
text: The 1960s counterculture created a moral and spiritual vacuum that weakens the foundations of American society. The new elite of its adversary culture has disdained traditional morality— the stress on hard work, thrift, frugality, deferred gratification, the sanctity of marriage, fidelity, sexual self-control, and individual accountability. Those who still believe in these values are branded by the new elite as quaint, politically incorrect throwbacks who "just don't get it."
ref: 1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
text: Couldn’t you point at that shed a little sooner, Alex⁉
Oh! Excellent! Right on shedule for your latest mission. Get it? E-heh, “shedule”?
Yes, unfortunately we get it, Jerry.
ref: 2006 March 16, Bryan Thompson, “I Want My Mummy”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Samantha “Sam” (Andrea Taylor as Clover, Jess Harnell as Jerry Lewis, and Jennifer Hale), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
text: And I really don't think you get it now
No, I really don't think you get it now
It's killing me, I admit it now
Congratulations, you tore my heart out
Congratulations
ref: 2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Jon Levine, Scott Jacoby, “Congratulations”, in Fight Song, performed by Rachel Platten:
glosses: To understand something; to catch on; to fully appreciate its implications.
examples: text: After the way she spoke to him, she's really going to get it this time.
synonyms: catch it
cop it
catch hell
glosses: To receive a negative thing: to receive punishment; to receive a retaliation; to receive a beating; to get what's coming to one; to feel someone's wrath.
examples: text: If you don't put away that smug little smile I swear you'll get it right in the teeth.
glosses: To be struck (as an act of violence).
examples: text: He could get it if he just had more confidence.
text: How much have you got? / Have you got it, do you get it, if so, how often?
ref: 1986, “West End Girls”, in Please, performed by Pet Shop Boys:
text: No one's counting but it's the fifteenth time she's gotten it this week.
ref: 1999, Beth Boucher, “Elusive Thing”:
synonyms: word: do it
word: get it on
word: get some
word: get lucky
word: make it
word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
glosses: To have sex, especially referring to its possibility or eventuality.