Definition of Get about

1. Verb. Move around; move from place to place. "How does she get around without a car?"

Exact synonyms: Get Around
Generic synonyms: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel

Definition of Get about

1. Verb. To be mobile, physically active. ¹

2. Verb. To become widely known (also ''get out''). ¹

3. Verb. To be seen in a variety of different places. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Get About

get a line
get a load
get a load of
get a look
get a move on
get a noseful
get a rise
get a rise from
get a rise out of
get a room
get a whiff
get a wiggle on
get a word in edgeways
get a word in edgewise
get a wriggle on
get about (current term)
get across
get after
get ahead
get ahead of oneself
get along
get along with
get around
get around to
get at
get away
get away with
get away with murder
get back

Literary usage of Get about

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Indiana Historical Collections by Harlow Lindley, Indiana Historical Bureau (1916)
"Two in the center and you better get about, Two in the center and you better get about, Two in the center and you better get about, Swing those ladies round ..."

2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Conference Under the Auspices of the National by National Tax Association (1922)
"taxes, or made returns., If we take the people who made income tax returns, and their dependents, you get about fifteen million people, and their income was ..."

3. A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1865)
"... soldiers and the townsmen—Negotiations with the king—The wife and mother of Pietro get about him—Four commissioners for conducting the negotiations with ..."

4. Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (1843)
"A man may get about a fortnight of this work. Fruit-gathering begins in ... Women get about 1*. per day for gathering filberts and plums. ..."

5. Sixty Years in California: A History of Events and Life in California by William Heath Davis (1889)
"... for a Season—Teaming Difficult—The Embryo City a Lake of Mud —How Pedestrians Managed to get About—Commodore Jones Wants to Remove the Brick Building, ..."

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