Definition of Get it

1. Verb. Understand, usually after some initial difficulty. "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"


2. Verb. Receive punishment. "You are going to get it!"

Definition of Get it

1. Verb. (&lit get it) ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To get what's coming to one: to feel someone's wrath; to receive punishment; to receive a retaliation; to receive a beating. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Get It

get hold
get hold of
get in
get in on
get in on the act
get in someone's hair
get in the way
get in touch
get in with
get into
get into one's stride
get into the act
get into trouble
get it (current term)
get it over with
get it up
get knotted
get life
get lost
get married
get moving
get off lightly
get off of one's cloud

Literary usage of Get it

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

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"heavy burden : but get it off myself I cannot; nor is there any man in our country that can take it off my shoulders; therefore am I going this way, ..."

2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"They'll both get it on the vital spot. Wells rubbed himself and said in a crying voice: — Please, sir, let me off! Athy grinned and turned up the sleeves of ..."

3. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1894)
"I have used marsh-mallow to a great extent, and it has done a great deal of good, provided you can get it just at the right time to turn under. ..."

4. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"It is not within the power of man to get it in a wholesale way because if it ... The man who secures it can get it in large quantities by growing the great ..."

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