Green’s Dictionary of Slang

get moving! start walking! go away!

1864		Harper’s Mag. Oct. 565/2: ‘George,’ after belaboring the mules till he was tired, and telling them to ‘git’ till he was hoarse, would lean back in his seat and think .
1874		‘Mark Twain’ Sketches 12/1: Then he says, ‘one-two-three-git!’.
1889		H. Lawson ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ in Roderick (1967–9) I 60: And laid about him with his tongue / advising us to ‘get’.
1892		H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 176: None of your damned impertinence. Get!
1905		Marvel III:55 12: ‘Get!’ once more shouted Gouty.
1913		J. London Valley of the Moon (1914) 257: If you come monkeyin’ around here again you’ll get yours. Now get!
1925		G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 182: Ye’re nuthin’ but a lousy bum. Now, git!
1932		M. Marshall Travels of Tramp-Royal 263: He struck a never-darken-my-door-again attitude, pointed into the rain and rapped out: ‘Get!’.
1940		S. Longstreet Decade 165: Now, get! [...] Show these shysters the door!
1953		‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 73: ‘Now git! And don’ ever come back’.
1957		D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 19: ‘Hey, Barb, it’s me, Billy.’ ‘Get,’ Barbie said. ‘I’m having a bath.’.
1960		N. Hilliard Maori Girl 168: ‘Here!’ he thrust a ten-shilling note at her [...] ‘Now get!’.
1984		T. Wolff The Barracks Thief 68: She holds the knife as a man would do [...] I don’t care what you do, she says. Just get .
1997–2000		College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Get (int.) When someone says something or does something really stupid or they are getting on your nerves just tell them to get!