get down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets down
form: getting down
form: got down
form: got down
form: gotten down
Senses: examples: text: The kitten climbed the tree, but then couldn't get down again.
text: Don't worry, I got the kitten down.
glosses: To bring or come down; to descend; to cause to bring or come down.
examples: text: The pill was so large that he couldn't get it down.
synonyms: ingest
ingurgitate
glosses: To swallow (something).
examples: text: With bullets flying, all I could do was get down and pray.
glosses: To duck or take cover, usually to avoid harm. Commonly used as a caution or warning in the imperative.
examples: text: To get down to the matter at hand.
glosses: To concentrate; attend.
examples: text: Nothing gets me down so much as a rainy day.
synonyms: word: despirit
word: get down
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
word: beleaguer
word: exhaust
word: fatigue
word: fordo
word: do for
word: gas out
word: get down
word: jade
word: knock up
word: poop
word: run someone ragged
word: tire
word: tire out
word: wear
word: wear down
word: wear out
word: weary
glosses: To depress; discourage; fatigue.
examples: text: Getting down with a bunch of old friends.
text: It's Friday, Friday / Gotta get down on Friday / Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend
ref: 2011, “Friday”, performed by Rebecca Black ft. Patrice Wilson:
glosses: To relax and enjoy oneself completely; be uninhibited in one's enjoyment.
synonyms: boogie down
glosses: To dance, particularly without inhibition or restraint, or in a sexually suggestive manner.
synonyms: celebrate
glosses: To party.
examples: text: She's always willing to get down with him.
text: And women will not care if Dick finally got down with Jane on Search for Tomorrow
ref: 1971, Gil Scott-Heron, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”:
text: Oh, do a little dance / Make a little love / Get down tonight, get down tonight
ref: 1975, “Get Down Tonight”, performed by KC and the Sunshine Band:
text: You get naked, honey, I'll get down / I'm gonna chase you around
ref: 1978, “Dirty Weekend”, in Blondes Have More Fun, performed by Rod Stewart:
synonyms: word: get it on
word: make love
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.
examples: text: Mummy, can I get down please?
glosses: To leave the table after dining.
raw_tags: of a child
examples: text: Quick, here's a pen, get this down will you, before I forget.
text: They got the whole song down in an hour.
synonyms: take down
glosses: To record, most often in writing.
examples: text: Ann is always getting down on these students.
synonyms: word: castigate
word: scold
word: animadvert
word: admonish
word: bash
word: bawl out
word: blast
word: derogate
word: berate
word: berisp
word: castigate
word: censure
word: chastise
word: chew out
word: chide
word: condemn
word: criticize
word: denounce
word: denunciate
word: drag
word: dress down
word: eat someone alive
word: excoriate
word: find fault
word: fulminate
word: get down
word: get up
word: give somebody a piece of one's mind
word: give somebody what-for
word: inveigh
word: lace into
word: lambaste
word: lay into
word: lecture
word: light into
word: objurgate
word: pooh-pooh
word: put someone on blast
word: rate
word: read somebody the riot act
word: rebuke
word: reprehend
word: reprimand
word: reproach
word: reprove
word: rip into
word: rubbish
word: savage
word: scold
word: slam
word: tear into
word: tell off
word: threap
word: tick off
word: tosh
word: keelhaul
word: upbraid
word: vilify
word: vituperate
glosses: To criticise; to be strict towards.
examples: text: I can't wait to get home and get down.
synonyms: shoot up
glosses: To use a drug, especially heroin.
examples: text: I've got this process down.
glosses: To do or perform well; to make happen; to make a serious effort at doing something.
examples: text: He's gotta get down on this sure thing.
glosses: To bet on (something); to place bets; to gamble.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, down.