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