get it v.
1. to be assaulted or beaten up.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | (con. 18C) Guy Mannering (1999) 149: I think we should be down upon the fellow, one of these darkmans, and let him get it well. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘The Beatings’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 132: ‘And Diego got it like that, too,’ Marty said. | |
| Portrait of a Young Man Drowning (1963) 30: If your father doesn’t find that loaf of bread you will get it good and proper. | |
| Burn, Killer, Burn! 188: What the hell is she screaming about? It’s me that’s getting it. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Urban Grimshaw 132: No one told them what to do and if anyone tried they got it. | |
| Hood Rat 111: As soon as the cklubbers see them up there they know someone’s going to get it. |
2. (US) to be shot, wounded or killed.
| Big Bear of Arkansas 131: Bang! Oh, dam you! you’ve got it! I know you is! [...] Yes, thar’s blood on the snow! | |
 | Story of the Rough Riders 197: Once in a while one of them would ‘get it.’ [...] When a man was hit in an outstretched arm ... he would whirl part of the way around before he fell. | |
| Confessions of a Con Man 72: Ten men are killed by [elephants] to one that gets it from the big cats. | |
| Over the Top 35: Don’t duck at the crack of a bullet, Yank; the danger has passed, [...] Always remember that if you are going to get it, you’ll get it, so never worry. | |
| Classics in Sl. 30: [He] decides he’ll croak Hamlet before he gets it himself. | |
| Rough Stuff 206: I knew then I’d have my own gang with me, and if I did get ‘it’, then I should have my death avenged. | |
| Joe Foss Flying Marine 100: ‘Poor old Joe finally got it,’ I could imagine the boys saying. ‘He’s shark bait.’. | |
| Tomboy (1952) 24: ‘Suppose we got shot?’ [...] ‘I was the one that almost got it.’. | |
| Godfather 87: Freddie would have gotten it today with his old man but my people had strict orders not to gun him. | |
| Jones Men 155: The fact that T.C. got it from somebody don’t change a thing. | |
| Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In 129: We get everything here. One lesbo scene, two visits to the Hole [...] one scene where a girl gets it in the stomach with a rat-tail comb. | |
| London Blues 31: But this was a double whammy: two days after Jack Kennedy got it, Oswald got it too! | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Blood Miracles : I’m glad Dan got it, and not me. | |
| Indep. on Sun. Culture 14 May 18: The pants manufacturer got it at his Florida estaminet. | |
| Hitmen 250: ‘Just leather him out of it in the chest, then he’s getting it in the crust of the head’. |
3. to be punished or reprimanded.
| Pickwick Papers (1999) 350: ‘But the plaintiff must get it,’ resumed Mrs Cluppins. ‘I hope so,’ said Mrs Bardell. | |
| Night in a Workhouse 46: ‘Then they was goin’ to wallop me again, so I thought I’d cheek it out; so I up and told the master all about it.’ ‘And got it wuss?’. | |
| We and Our Neighbours 79: Any boy that don’t toe the crack gets it . | |
| Tales of the Ex-Tanks 354: How was that for a man [...] to get it coming and going, both ends from the middle. | |
| Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 261: Here’s where he gets it good and plenty. | |
| ‘Scrap Iron’ in Taking the Count 229: He’ll get it one of these days. They all do. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sport (Adelaide) 3 Apr. 4/7: Stoker H will get it if he is caught going home with Ivy C . | |
| Tell England (1965) 111: I can’t be whacked; I’m too old. But you’ll get it, Rupert. | |
| Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 155: Hope the schmock gets it good and strong. | |
| Amboy Dukes 76: Oh, boy [...] now I’m gonna get it! | |
| Criminal (1993) 53: Skysmith had gotten it from the Captain, and Dudley had gotten it from Skysmith. | |
| ‘I’m a Boy’ 🎵 I’m a boy, I’m a boy / But if I say I am, I get it. | |
| in Living Black 304: Whatever the way, he followed the rules or he got it. | |
| Inside 15: One day you’re really gonna get it, Mano. | |
| Outlaws (ms.) 139: You’re getting it, you little cunt! |
4. to be subjected to abuse or nagging.
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 24 July 14/2: Charlie Daniels says he can stand an awful lot and he gets it some times pretty lively from tbe cranks while he is umpiring. | |
| Billy Baxter’s Letters 51: I can gaze into the dim, hazy distance and see where every one of these coy, clever fellows is going to get it, and get it good, and I am glad of it. | |
| Spats’ Fact’ry (1922) 38: My Arthur’s got a gran’mother and two ailing sisters to support, [...] and I get it about them three nights a week. | |
| Monkey On My Back (1954) 38: He would turn the radio down low, but he would ‘get it all over’. |
5. of a man, to have sexual intercourse; of a woman, to be subjected to intercourse.
| (ref. to late 19C) Amer. Madam (1981) 133: The husband who wasn’t getting it properly at home – he could come to get his ashes hauled, his wick dipped – both expressions popular in these middle class joints. | |
| Redheap (1965) 46: ‘Here’s me, on and off, chasin’ Maggie Trimble for a year; no more hope of gettin’ it than flyin’’ . | |
| Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 178: She laughed softly. ‘Come and get it?’ she said. | |
| (con. 1944) Naked and Dead 275: How’s it feel gettin’ it steady. | |
| Ginger Man (1958) 6: At least you get it steady. | |
| Teachers (1962) 140: You must be getting it regular. | |
| Digger’s Game (1981) 24: She likes getting it, nothing more’n that. | |
| Straight Outta Compton 90: He will get it and then let Clive have her. They’ll run a train on her. | |
| Stingray Shuffle 162: It’s not right because you’re not getting it. |
6. to catch a venereal disease.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | For the Rest of Our Lives 51: ‘Old Sexy just got out of hospital to-day. Remember him?’ ‘The bloke that got it in the tool at Galatos?’ ‘That’s the bloke. And a humdinger he had too. At shortarm inspection the M.O. used to go green with envy.’. |
7. (US) to go at great speed.
| in Pittsburgh Courier 14 Sept. 15: Jump, Get it – work fast [HDAS]. | |
| Assault with a Deadly Weapon 114: So I tell JoJo to get it, and when I say ‘Get it!’ JoJo immediately pulls out of the traffic and onto the sidewalk. |
8. (US) to be pleasing, attractive; used in negative contexts, e.g. Sorry, but he just doesn’t get it.
| Current Sl. III–IV (Cumulative Issue) 54: Get it, v. To be attractive or pleasing. |
In phrases
(US Und.) to get life imprisonment.
| Wash. Times (DC) 14 Sept. 10/3: Got it all — Life imprisonment. | |
| How I Became a Detective 92: get it all v. Got it all – Life imprisonment. |
(US) to master, e.g. a job of work.
| Rivethead (1992) 88: This job fucking sucks. Until you get it down your hands will ache [...] and your back will feel like it’s been steamrollered. |
see under hot adv.
see under it n.1
to succeed in doing, in understanding etc. at the first try, esp. in a sexual context.
| ‘Jobs for the Boys’ in Boys from the Blackstuff (1985) [TV script] 48: snowy: But y’ need the money. chrissie: Got it in one. | |
| Guardian 15 Jan. 🌐 What’s a hoon? It’s an Australian term for a stupid person given to drinking and aggression. Not to be confused with pommy defence secretary Geoff Hoon? Got it in one. |
see separate entry.
(US) to reach orgasm, to copulate, to derive pleasure.
| ‘Spring Evening’ in Fellow Countrymen (1937) 170: I’d get ’em off on these hot days, sitting in my white flannels with some rich jane on the veranda of a club like that, sipping my liquor. | |
| (con. 1925) My Days of Anger 132: ‘Let’s go to Twenty-two and get laid.’ ‘Dopey, you’re too drunk to get ’em off.’. | |
| National Lampoon Sept. 52: Never gotten one off with a garette before, eh? [HDAS]. | |
| Faggots 89: I want to get laid. Get it off. I need to come. |
of a man, to have sexual intercourse.
| Big Huey 130: There were five or more other guys in the hail at the time who were getting it off regularly with the poofters. |
see separate entries.
see separate entries.
to be hit or hurt, to suffer in the worst place, or fig. in the worst poss. way given the context.
| Argosy 21 110/2: He will get it from us exactly in that portion of the human frame where the bottle got the cork, where Maggie wore the beads, and where the giraffe has the advantage over other birds—in short, in the neck. | |
| McClure’s Mag. 38 270: When your pa learns that you kids has been puttin’ up such shenanigans on me jes’ because he’s off to the races, it’ll be wholesome for the spot o’ you where Maggie wore the beads — not! | |
| Liberal Democrat (KS) 8 Jan. 7/5: Any administration that attempts to poke compulsory military training down the throats of people is due to get it where Maggie wore the beads at the next election. | |
| Liberal Democrat (KS) 20 Nov. 4/1: Next Thursday is when the tueky is doomed to get it where Maggie wore the beads. President Wilson has issued [a] national thanksgiving proclamation. | |
| Aberdeen Jrnl 27 May 2/1: The Hyde Park orator who asked his audience where Maggie wore her beads [...] with the object of enforcing the lesson that the Allies must punish Germany [...] ‘in the neck’. | |
| Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 31 May 3/5: We are all hoping that Fritz is going to get it where Maggie wore the beads [...] In the neck. And his ‘neck’ is enormous. | |
| ‘Les Prénoms Dans La Langue Imagée’ in Meta XLIII No. 2 🌐 se faire tancer; to get a scolding, to get it where Maggie wore the beads. |
to suffer in the worst possible way, according to context.
| Sun (NY) 27Mar. 7/1: When he made a rush and hit me all his might / I got it where the chicken got the axe / Just because I made too many sassy cracks. | |
| El Paso Dly Herald (TX) 19 Oct. 1/6: Supt. Hurley says [...] the first man caught violating the new law, will get it where the chicken got the axe. | |
| Dly Public Ledger (Marysville, KY) 3 June 1/4: When he is caught he will get it where the chicken got the axe. | |
| ‘The Pirate’ in Escape Agents 🌐 Now see to it that you don’t play any monkey tricks, or you’ll get it quick and sudden where the chicken got the axe. | |
| Day Book (Chicago) 9 Nov. 24: We’ll Get It Where the Chicken Got the Axe. | |
| The Leavenworth (WA) 5 July 1/4: If I have to take this in hand do not interfere, or you will get it where the chicken got the axe, axe, axe. | |
| (con. WW1) Patrol 70: ‘I’m a Jonah [...] Whoever gets tangled up with me [...] gets it right slick where the chicken got the axe’. |