make it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes it
form: making it
form: made it
form: made it
Senses: examples: text: He never made it to Italy despite talking about it all his life.
text: I can't make it to the concert; I have to work.
text: I'm not just going to make it; I'm going to make it big.
text: We're not gonna make it / ’Cause there’s a million better bands
ref: 1995, “We Are Not Going To Make It”, performed by The Presidents of the United States of America:
text: I was scrambling to my feet when I saw the car sliding back toward me, having not quite made it to the crest of the hill.
ref: 2003, Frank P. Baron, What Fish Don't Want You to Know:
text: He was fated to be, as he puts it, “a metal kid who never made it.”
ref: 2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired, →ISSN:
glosses: To succeed in doing something, for example in reaching a place, going somewhere, attending an event, arriving in time for something, adding to one's schedule or itinerary, or in getting where one wants to be in one's life or career, which sometimes means becoming or wanting to become successful (succeed in a big way) or famous.
examples: text: Don’t die, pal. You’re gonna make it little buddy. Come on, man. We’re gonna help you, and you’re gonna make it.
ref: 1980, Will D. Campbell, Brother to a Dragonfly:
text: Arjaan didn't make it. He went down covering our saboteur-took out nearly a dozen kett before he fell.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: For the Commander:
glosses: To succeed in surviving, in living through something.
examples: text: Iris Steensma (Jodie Foster): “Listen, we better make it or Sport’ll get mad. So how do you wanna make it?”
Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro): “I don’t wanna make it. Who’s Sport?”
Iris Steensma: “Oh, that’s Matthew. I call him Sport. Wanna make it like this? (starts to unbuckle belt)[…] “Don't you want to make it?”
Travis Bickle: “No I don’t wanna make it. I wanna help you” […]
Iris Steensma: “Listen, we don’t have to make it mister.”
ref: 1976, Paul Schrader, 01:21:04 from the start, in Martin Scorsese, director, Taxi Driver (film):
text: […]a fellow who knew how to make every girl happy, but once he’d made it with her didn’t know where to go from there.
ref: 1993, The Four Sonyas, translation of original by Vladimír Páral:
synonyms: word: do it
word: get 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 sexual intercourse.
examples: text: The blisters on my foot made it a problem to walk without a cane.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it.