Green’s Dictionary of Slang

an excl. of derision, mockery (both affectionate and otherwise).

c.1933		in B. Adelman (ed.) Tijuana Bibles (1997) 108: ‘Get her in her cowboy suit!’.
1959		W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 21: Get her!
1959		Galton & Simpson ‘The Picnic’ Hancock’s Half-Hour [Radio script] Ooh blimey, get him!
1961		‘Lou Rand’ Gay Detective (2003) 19: A heavy voice mimicked: ‘“Please, sir, do hold still.” Get her!’.
1966		M. Rumaker Exit 3 and Other Stories 28: ‘Get him!’ said one of the soldiers.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 95: get her (exclam, dated, ’40s) command to take a gander at someone who is trying his damndest to be charming and witty but winding up a fiasco. Equivalent to “who does he think he is?” get her bar tavern frequented by gossipy homosexuals who tend to live in the past.
1985		K. Vacha Quiet Fire 174: It was very common to use words like ‘camp,’ ‘trade,’ or ‘Get her!’.
1999		Observer Mag. 12 Sept. 94: I was like ‘Get her!’ And the waiter said, ‘The lady of the moment.’ I was loving it.
2003		in Baker & Stanley Hello Sailor! 200: ‘We used to say “get her”’.

now listen! take note! this is amazing!

1930		‘Armitage Traill’ Scarface Ch. i: You’re not seein’ Al any more. Get that, bab.
1936		R. Chandler ‘Goldfish’ Red Wind (1946) 149: ‘Beginning to get to you, eh?’ she said. ‘Well get this. Peeler Mardo is rooming at my house.’.
1957		G. Kersh Fowlers End (2001) 234: Before he got into his big car, he shouted: ‘And I hate the thought of bloody worms. Get that for a start!’.
1966		B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: Get this thickie: they don’t teach nothing that’s any good to us.
1981		J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 206: But get this!
1997		C. Hiaasen Lucky You 212: ‘Get this,’ she said. ‘We’re in the hot-air balloon, the yellow one from before, and all of a sudden you’re asking for half the lottery money.’.

a teasing, mocking phr., used to deflate someone who is seen as showing off, overdressing etc; thus get me!, teasing oneself; the tone is usu. stereotypically effeminate/homosexual.

1912		Ade Knocking the Neighbors 129: ‘Get me!’ said Wilbur’s wife, dropping wearily to a Divan in the Style of Louis Quatorze.
1947		(con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 137: Well, get you, Mabel, the first British sergeant tittered.
1949		‘Swasarnt Nerf’ et al. Gay Girl’s Guide 10: get you!: Who do you think you’re kidding! (‘Get . . .’ is used in an infinite number of phrases).
1972		‘J. Little’ Maybe-Tomorrow 185: ‘Get you...Mary...I was just trying to be polite for a change’ [Simes:DLSS].
1958		J. Osborne Epitaph for George Dillon Act II: Get us with our intellectual sets on! And we’re not even tight.
1959		J. Gielgud letter 20 Jan. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 223: Turned down 25,000 dollars to do Potting Shed on TV [...] Get me!
1959		F. Norman in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 64: Get you, darling, all done up in drag, anyone would think you were a palone.
1962		R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 26: Get you, dearie!
1978		Maledicta II:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 120: ‘Get you, Mary’ (the use of proper names in camp slang), and studies of poufs and dykes and aunties and chickens and flashers and leather queens and other denizens of the sexual subcultures.
1986		Advocate (L.A.) 15 May 28/1: Get you, Mary—The closest translation is probably the Latin greeting, ‘Salve!’ [Simes:DLSS].
1989		M. Amis London Fields 119: She did a fish mouth, and her eyes lengthened. ‘Get you. Aren’t you the one.’.
2009		S. Orchard Virtuoso 189: ‘Oh, get you! You’re jealous I’m not available’ [Simes:DLSS].

a thief.

1900		Sporting Times 24 Mar. 1/2: As old Fogo, the veteran fob-diver, dashed up a blind alley off Drury Lane, he ran into and nearly capsized a more youthful get-a-bit.
1920		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘No Separation’ Sporting Times 3 Jan. 1/3: Tongues were busy in that ancient and accepted rub-a-dub / Hight the ‘Slate and Pencil,’ home of getabits.

describing armed robbers, pertaining to hold-up with a gun.

1932		Collier’s 3 Dec. 9: Dancing Dan is one of the best lone-hand git-’em-up guys in the world [HDAS].
1938		D. Runyon ‘A Job for the Macarone’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 692: These git-’em-up characters.

see git-go n.

1. (US black, also git-high) any form of drug.

1983		N. Heard House of Slammers 73: Not only do we have pot, but any other kinda ‘git-high’ you want.
1993		R. Shell Iced 223: Can’t celebrate the Nation’s Birthday without some get-high!!!
2006		G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 208: Drinking champagne and smoking a little get-high.

2. (US drugs) a drug user’s equipment.

1985

T.R. Houser Central Sl. 25: get high A hype outfit. A hype kit.

(US black/N.Z.) an outfit, a suit of clothes.

1929		J. O’Hara ‘Halloween Party’ in New Yorker 26 Oct. 36/1: I feel pretty sure that. Mr. Cleary will be wearing some kind of a costume like King Arthur or a sheik or some other expensive get-out that he wouldn’t want ruined.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 49/1: get-out set of clothes.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].

1. see also separate entries.

2. see also under relevant n. or adj.

see sense 2g

1. to irritate, to annoy.

1911		E. Dyson ‘On a Bender’ in Benno and Some of the Push 75: Then fer an orful moment he’d sorter totter on the brink iv gettin’ across them.
1914		C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 113: I came down in the car for fear you got across with him. He was a bit above himself to-night.
1992		M. Frayn Now You Know 101: I know you and she slightly got across each other in the restaurant.

2. (US black) to succeed.

1917		F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) II xii: Turn down that gas jet a little! You’ve got across with it so far — but you can’t stand a searchlight.
1939		Goodman & Kolodin Kingdom of Swing 262: If you expect to get across and make the crowd feel like dancing, you have to give out with something in every number you play.
1942		Z.N. Hurston ‘Story in Harlem Sl.’ in Novels and Stories (1995) 1002: The way he figured it after the peep was that he had plenty to get across and maybe do a little more cruising besides.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 239: get across 1. Succeed in life.

3. to seduce.

1963		K. Waterhouse Jubb (1966) 49: Little Sally Frost. Christ I must get across that one again.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 239: get across [...] 3. Talk seductively and persuasively to a member of the opposite sex. 4. Get one to agree to sexual relations.
1987		(con. 1930s) L. Redmond Emerald Square 340: This was what Kelly [...] had had in Dolphins Barn, when he had got across Eileen Og.

4. to acquire status.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 239: get across [...] 2. Acquire status.

(Aus.) to start a fight.

1962

J. Wynnum Tar Dust 25: ‘Too early in the day to get stuck into Van Diemen’s mob. Let’s wait until a few more of our mob smell out this bin, then we’ll get among ’em’.

1. to make a large amount of money.

1951		D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 49: He didn’t dress as though he was getting among it and the furniture he’d put in the house where he and Lil, his wife, lived, wasn’t a patch on mine.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 85: get amongst it Enjoy engagement, usually sexual, but can be a booze session or making money.

2. to seduce, either a man or woman; to have sexual intercourse.

1951		D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 7: The workman..read some of the inscriptions on the wreaths. ‘Jimmy, with love from Helen,’ the tall workman read out aloud. ‘Bloody girlfriend, I suppose.’ ‘He got amongst it’.
1970		J. Hibberd White with Wire Wheels in 4 Aus. Plays 170: Pity about Mal and his girlfriend not being able to make it. I wonder what they were up to. Getting amongst it I suppose.
2003		see sense 1.
2017		L. Dann Mrs D is Going Within [ebook] ‘[N]aughty Lotta’, with the twinkle in her eye, getting amongst it into the wee small hours.
2020		R. Grant Sexual Citizenship [ebook] [I was] getting amongst it with the boys [...] going a bit far.

see getting any (lately)?

1. (US) to lead a promiscuous life.

1936		J. O’Hara ‘Saffercisco’ in New Yorker 11 Apr. 14/1: [A]mong his four or five wives [...] are two of the, say, fifteen most popular movie actresses. And among those fifteen at least two more have been his mistresses. That score more or less establishes that the fact that Jack got around.
1937		P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 115: ‘I wouldn’t want Rudy to get any ideas about my getting around with good-looking Mexicanos’ .
1945		J. O’Hara ‘The Pretty Daughters’ in New Yorker 3 Mar. 25/3: ‘Mother did say you—you got around a lot.’ ‘What did she actually say?’ He smiled. She hesitated. ‘Well, she said that if the term had been used in her day, you’d probably have been called a wolf’ .
1953		‘John Monahan’ [W.R. Burnett] Big Stan 129: ‘I hear she gets around.’ ‘Talk, talk. Who knows?’.

2. see get up v.¹ (5)

3. see wrap oneself around under wrap v.

(US black) to nag, to pressurize.

1940		E.F. Frazier Negro Youth 75: When I was small I played with white boys and girls, but when I became about fifteen I noticed they had a different feeling toward me [...] At fifteen I believe the girls’ parents got behind them. We had grown up.
1967		E. Liebow Tally’s Corner 111: if Leroy ever married Charlene [...] it would only be because [...] Charlene’s mother, Malvina, and her social worker were ‘getting behind him’ (i.e., putting pressure on him).

1. to suffer delirium tremens.

1889		Dead Bird (Sydney) 9 Nov. 2/2: Two more thought they had ‘em again, and [...] swore by all that was good that they would never again taste or touch liquor of any kind.
1896		Regiment 9 May 10: [cartoon caption] Bibulous Major: ‘Heavens! what’s this? I haven’t got ’em again, surely’.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Mar. 28/2: Thomas seemed to be astounded and commenced to caress her [...], but the lady would have none of him, and declared that he was ‘in the horrors.’ True enough, the tragedy was only another version of ‘got ’em again.’.
1903		Wodehouse Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘Hullo, what’s up now? Have you got ’em too?’.
1920		Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Apr. 26/3: When I saw [...] a mass of waving, snake-like things with pointed heads and big, black, staring eyes, I thought I had ’em again.

2. to be mad.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 460/1: since ca. 1910.

3. to be frightened.

1930

(con. 1914–18) Brophy & Partridge Songs and Sl. of the British Soldier.

see get it off under get it v.

to suffer punishment; to be attacked, killed.

2005

R. Cea No Lights, No Sirens 157: ‘You’s a cunt, punk-ass nigga. I see you out here again you gonna get got, you cryin’ little bitch’.

see under it n.¹

see get catch under catch v.²

see under lay v.¹

a phr. meaning you understand? often used as an all-purpose phr. to punctuate sentences.

[1915		TAD Indoor Sports 27 Aug. [synd. cartoon] Yo know me Al. Yo might as well be dead as out ob style — Get me bo. Get me].
1932		W.R. Burnett Giant Swing 50: ‘Lemme go or I’ll pop you one. I’m a fighter, get me?’.
1961		W.R. Burnett Conant 21: ‘You never seen us. You never talked to us. You know from absolutely goddamned nothing. [...] Get me?’.
2003		Dizzee Rascal in Vice Mag. at Hyperdub.com 🌐 Everyone’s got the tendency to do bad things, getme, but we’re doing it the legal way as well. [...] Everything has a positive and negative effect, getme?

(Aus.) are you with me? do you understand?

1914		W.L. George Making of an Englishman in DSUE (1984).
1922		Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 14 Oct. 4/5: I object to that squawkin’ coot callin’ her names [...] it’s got ter stop, Get me, Steve?
1926		‘Sapper’ Final Count 117: We shall follow her. Do you get me, Steve?

see under best v.

see getting much?

to lose emotional control.

1932

(con. 1910s) J.T. Farrell Young Lonigan in Studs Lonigan (1936) 29: Wouldn’t she get one if she saw us in here smokin’!

see under it n.¹

see under one n.¹

see under one n.¹

see get it off under get it v.

see under one n.¹

see under one n.¹

1. (orig. US) to suffer in some way.

1899–1900		C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 350: Well, I got mine, there and then [...] and I got it right.
1907		B. Fisher A. Mutt in Blackbeard Compilation (1977) 7: I gotta tell the old lady and then I’ll get mine.
1915		D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 78: The next time you start up a business without permission you’ll get yours, and get it good and plenty.
1921		N. Putnam West Broadway 126: By gollies, it's done my heart good to see all these building fellers getting theirs.
1922		C.J. Daly ‘The False Burton Combs’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 21: ‘Here’s where you stop,’ he growled, ‘and here’s where you get yours [...] the killing of a rat like you is the only business I’ve got on the moors this night.’.
1931		Dundee Courier 8 Oct. 11/6: Now don’t you high-hat me, or you’ll get yours too.
1937		D. Fuchs Low Company 29: Peggy told them to go to hell and lay off or they’d get theirs. So they got sore.
1943		Sydney Morn. Herald 11 Dec. 7/3: The individual ‘got his’.
1947		I. Shulman Amboy Dukes 29: You’ll get yours!
1953		Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 19: Maybe the fat slob’ll get his.
1959		W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 196: I reckon he’s had his too.
1962		P. Crump Burn, Killer, Burn! 135: Some day you’re going to get yours.
1974		G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 242: If you got involved with felons, looking to earn a nice few quid [...] then you had to take your chances. If that meant the payoff was getting yours, well too bad.
1992		P. Earley Hot House 320: ‘We should jump that prick in the parking lot and whip his ass.’ ‘Don’t worry. He’ll get his. It’s just a matter of time’.
2004		N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 259: The Norwood gang finally got theirs one Sunday night in 1982.
2023		F. Bill Back to the Dirt 102: ‘Don’t think for a second [...] that I won’t stomp your ass. You’re gonna get yours, Knox’.

2. (orig. US) to be killed, to die, usu. by accident or through violence.

1907		W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 244: They figured to make a clean job and bump off York, too. From what York says Leroy has got his.
1912		J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 92: Oh, you’ll get yours as soon as I finish with your pardner, you little hog-wallopin’ snooper, you.
1917		F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I ii: Metzer got his early in de afternoon — see?
1924		D. Hammett ‘Nightmare Town’ in Nightmare Town (2001) 33: Harker — another doctor, who got his last week.
1927		P. MacDonald (con. WW1) Patrol 3: ‘Muriel’s got his [...] clean through left lung’ .
1933		J. Spenser Limey 22: He ‘got his’ during [...] a hold-up.
1941		Howard ‘Heat’ in Mann Coast to Coast 132: ‘Well, he’s got his,’ he said indifferently.
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 101: I saw the kissers of most all those good-natured sporty guys in the papers [...] they all got theirs sooner or later.
1959		S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 184: That big Henderson finally got his [...] He probably bullied some natives and they stabbed him.
1960		J. Thompson ‘Forever After’ in Fireworks (1988) 51: Let him get one last look before he gets his.
1971		R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 252: ‘But why is Red Mike gonna to get his now [...] Nobody’s ever tried to kill him before’.
1979		J. Morrow Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 65: They sometimes manage to snatch a tit-bit through the door or window – that’s how the beagles got theirs.
1993		I. Welsh Trainspotting 82: He’d git his one day. Nothing wis surer.
2000		W.T. Vollmann Royal Family 507: He gonna get his. Something is gonna happen to him.

3. (orig. US black) to get one’s share, usu. of material pleasures, to get what one deserves; usu. as get mine.

1905		H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 357: Hully chee [...] Here’s where he gets his.
1920		H. Wiley Wildcat 226: ‘I’ve got mine.’ The sailor who had lost turned away from the group.
1929		E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 122: The men on both sides of the river were getting theirs while the going was good.
1933		J.T. Farrell ‘The Little Blond Fellow’ in Short Stories (1937) 69: Sure you’re getting yours?
1939		T. Wolfe Web and the Rock 402: Every man, the blind could tell you as they struggled through the subway door while there was still room for one more visionless sardine, was ‘getting his’.
1941		B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 213: I always said he’d sock the jackpot, but I sure never thought he’d get his in the movies.
1977		A. Hoffman Property Of (1978) 31: ‘I got mine tonight,’ said the Dolphin.
1993		Snoop Doggy Dogg ‘Gin and Juice’ 🎵 You got to get yours but fool I gotta get mine.
1999		Guardian Guide 6–12 Nov. 5: The same year found the similarly payola-powered James Belushi out to ‘get his’.

4. (US) to get sexual satisfaction.

1923		in Perkins & Bealer Jeb & Dash (1994) 62: Randall and the marine were gone, so Randall must have got his [Simes:DLSS].
1930		J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 139: ‘Well ah got mahn awright this summer, damned if ah didn’t’.
1967		M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 120: He got his shining shoes. Every stroke of the brush increased his excitement until he rocked and moaned [...] crooning to the shoes like a lover.
1997		D.H. Edwards The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing 120: Sometimes when I was playing I’d have a woman ask me, ‘Will you go home with me?’ I'd say, ‘Yes,’ and then another would come in [...] and we'd make the same setup. [...] I got mine.

(US) used with a n. to describe an activity.

1996		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 4: Get one’s – on – begin the activity specified in the blank: ‘I’m going to back to my room and get my sleep on.’ Get my grub on – eat; Get my eat on – eat; Get my groove on – dance; Get my study on – study, do homework.
2005		R. Cea No Lights, No Sirens 28: ‘[S]o as long as you fellows are here, why not let two of your older brothers get our KFC on?’.
2007		W.D. Myers ‘marisol and skeeter’ in What They Found 191: Then he would play something for the old people who needed to get their shake-shake-shake on.
2008		T. Dorsey Atomic Lobster 11: ‘What’cha doin?’ ‘Just gettin’ my Serge on.’.
2012		M. Lacher On the Bro’d 12: I was a young player and I had to get my party on.
2021		T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] [T]he midday museum crowd is getting their art on.

see get it up v. (1)

1. (usu. Aus.) to pick someone up (for sex), to establish casual relations with.

1910		L. Esson Woman Tamer (1911) 69: [W]hen I got on with Katie, I reckoned I would be master in my own house.
1932		C. McKay Gingertown 62: Colored boy [...] envied the way Jay could always get on to some woman to do everything for him.
1954		T.A.G. Hungerford Sowers of Wind 131: ‘[Y]ou’ve got as much chance of getting on with her as you have of laying a gold egg’.
1965		W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 214: If he had wanted a sheila that bad, he could always have go on to one of the widgies up at the Oasis.
1965		W. Watkins Wayward Gang (1972) 212: ‘Seems they got a couple of no-hopers in there. [...] one bloke shot himself and another got on with someone’s missus’ [Simes:DLSS].
1971		J. McNeil Chocolate Frog 49: I never even knew she was a worker...not when I first got on with her.
1975		‘Bluey’ Bush Contractors 74: Con got onto a sort named Karen, a homely girl [Simes:DLSS].
1980		Man They Couldn’t Break 68: He was forever trying to get on with some girl [Simes:DLSS].
1985		R.G. Barrett You Wouldn’t Be Dead 70: A red hot poof had tried to get on to him in a bottle shop.
1992		Tracks (Sydney) July 10/2: ‘I’m 14 and I have had a few straight experiences (I’ve gotten onto a few chicks)’.

2. see sense 5

see get off at... v.

to get away with; to cheat in a deal.

1931		D. Runyon ‘The Brain Goes Home’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 219: If The Brain gets out on three hundred G’s per year for love, he is running his love business very economically.
2019		N. Walker Cherry 238: That night Gary got out on me for $180. It was a loss but not a total disaster.

(Aus.) to place a bet, esp. as exhortation by a bookmaker or two-up organizer; thus set, having placed a bet.

1903		Sunday Sun (Sydney) 17 May 1/5: Side-wagers are being made. ‘’Ere, stop that,’ warns the Czar. ‘I’m not set yet’.
1905		Worker (Wagga Wagga, NSW) 28 Jan. 5/1: [S]o the two-up boxer nightly grunts out: ‘Get set! Get set!’.
1908		Referee (Sydney) 6 May 5/7: There were 16 runners in the 14.2 Handicap, and the first offer of, ‘6 to 4 the field!’ caused a panic amongst would-be supporters of Skylark, the majority of whom were compelled to lay 6 to 4 ‘on’ to get set.
1911		L. Stone Jonah [ebook] ‘Get set! - get set!’ cried the boxer, lolling in his seat with a nonchalant air; and in a twinkling a bright heap of silver lay in front of each player, the wagers made with the gaffers opposite.
1916		Dly Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 30 mar. 8/2: Bookmakers were not too numerous at the meeting; and in one event, the Novice Handicap, the commissioners behind Powerite complain they could not get set at anything near a decent price.
1944		L. Glassop We Were the rats 117: At one end I heard cries of, ‘A hundred in the guts’, ‘A hundred mils to see ’em go, ‘Are yous all set on the side?’ and the old ‘Come in, spinner!’.
1954		T. Ronan Vision Splendid 229: ‘All set on the side?’ asked Mark Hall. There was no reply. ‘Then I’m bringing the spinner in’.
1965		J. O’Grady Aussie Eng. (1966) 53: He invites others to ‘get set on the side’, and side-bets are made.
1972		J. O’Grady It’s Your Shout, Mate! 25: The keeper said, ‘Centre set. All set on the side?’.
1977		J. Ramsay Cop It Sweet! 39: GET SET: To be covered for a wager.
1986		Canberra Times (ACT) 14 Sept. 5/4: The people who were put out the most were the owners and trainers of horses who had travelled from Sydney and country areas to race here and were then unable to get set because the bookmakers refused to work.
1991		R.G. Barratt ‘An Artful Dodger’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Ben could always get set on the nod with Uncle Art, no worries.

see under it n.¹

see get ’em

see get one in under one n.¹

see under get up v.¹ (5)

1. (drugs) to obtain drugs.

1971		J.T. Dunigan Drug Abuse: A Resource Guide.
1980		S. McConville ‘Prison Language’ in Michaels & Ricks (1980) 526: When cash runs short and a teahead cannot make a connection or get through [etc.].
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 10: Get through — Obtain drugs.

2. (UK black/gang) to overcome a rival.

2018-20

T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Get through - defeat, ‘deal with’, e.g. enemies.

(orig. Aus.) a popular greeting between men.

c.1940		S. Baker Materials MS 47/2: ‘Larrikin’ [...] Getting any?
1945		S. Baker Aus. Lang. 124: The jocular greeting between man and man, getting’ any? which draws such set replies as climbing trees to get away from it! got to swim under water to dodge it! and so busy I've had to put a man on!
1951		D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 174: ‘Getting any, smacker?’ I’d ask him. More often than not he’d come back at me, ‘I’ve got to climb trees to get away from it’.
1958		Southern & Hoffenberg Candy (1965) 179: ‘Gittin’ any? Hee-haa!’.
1967		King’s Cross Whisper xxxv 6/1: getting any. A customary greeting usually answered by: ‘Knockin’ it back with sticks’.
1971		A. Buzo The Roy Murphy Show (1973) 103: Morning, Col. Getting any? That’s the stuff.
1978		C. Miller Animal House 97: Get any? Hah? Little hose job? Hah? Hah?
1986		C. Bowles G’DAY! 37: Among single Australian males the facetious ‘Getting any lately?’ should be responded to with: ‘Yeah, hadda putta man on’.

(US) a male-to-male greeting.

1927		D. Hammett ‘The Big Knockover’ Story Omnibus (1966) 298: We shook hands, exchanged How’s everything and Getting muches, and he sat at my table.
1938		J. Weidman I Can Get It For You Wholesale 171: You getting much?
1962		S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 260: Gettin’ much, Bitsy?
1970		(con. 1950s) H. Junker ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 103: After a date they would ask, especially if he had a rep as a hot ticket, an ass man: Get much?
1985		E. Leonard Glitz 257: How you doing, Ricky? You getting much?

(orig. US black) a general excl. of disbelief, dismissal, I don’t believe you! you must be joking! don’t be silly! who do you think you’re fooling?

1847		Clinton Republican (Wilmington, OH) 3 Apr. 4/3: ‘Sister you see any black folks in heaven?’ [...] ‘Oh, go way, Sam, don’t put a body, out; ‘spose I go in de kitchen when I was dar?’.
1848		B.A. Baker Glance at N.Y. [play script] Mose: Give us a buss, old gal! Guess I seen ye lookin’ out er ther winder this morning—I did. Lize: Oh git out—you Mose!
1905		H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 28: ‘Get out,’ he gasped incredulously, ‘She ain’t your girl, Sid Pornick’.
1912		Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Sept. 15/1: ’Ello, I s’y, git outer this. / What, ’ave yeh come? Oh, give’s a kiss, / Yeh dear ole darlin’ Boshter Jim!
1928		M.C. Sharpe Chicago May (1929) 25: If the guy squawked, the bouncer would say, ‘Get out of here! We ain’t bothering about youse and your troubles with your wife’.
1952		A. Baron With Hope, Farewell 100: ‘Git aht of it!’ jeered Sid. ‘Lovely cob like that!’ .
1958		E. Gilbert Vice Trap 126: ‘The deal’s knocked, anyway.’ ‘Get out of here,’ I said.
1967		L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 50: Get out of here with that horseshit!
1972		D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 250: ‘Did he ever tell you that he thought you and I would make a better twosome, lovewise, than he and I?’ ‘Get out of here,’ I said.
1988		(con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 72: Get out of here. I was just asking.
1994		N. McCall Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 193: Man, get outta here! That guy don’t look like Wanda!
2000		Guardian Rev. 25 Feb. 6: If you asked me back in ’91 would I ever be in a movie as a soldier [...] I’d have said get the hell out of here. Hell, no!
2014		E. McNamara ‘Authenti Cityin ThugLit Sept. [ebook] ‘[A]in’t even Italian and he's gonna tell us what real Italian food is? Get the fuck outta here with that’.
2017		L. McInerney Blood Miracles : ‘G’way outta that, Cusak’.