get
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Is get a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.Examples: "I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store."; "Lance is going to get Mary a ring."Synonyms: acquire, come by, haveditransitivetransitive
2. (transitive) To receive.Examples: "I got a computer from my parents for my birthday."; "He got a severe reprimand for that."; "Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings."Synonyms: receive, be givetransitive
3. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.Examples: "I've got a concert ticket for you."; ""Yeah, and I got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you," was Peter's response to his wife."transitive
4. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.Examples: "Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?"; "I need to get this to the office."; "Get thee out from this land."Synonyms: bring, fetch, retrievetransitive
5. (copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.Examples: "I'm getting hungry; how about you?"; "I'm going out to get drunk."; "November 1, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast."Synonyms: grow, waxcopulative
6. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.Examples: "That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it."; "I'll get this finished by lunchtime."; "I can't get these boots off."Synonyms: cause to be, cause to become, maketransitive
noun (English)
1. (dated) Offspring, especially illegitimate.Examples: "At the time when I am making these observations, one of his colts is the first favourite for the Derby; and it will be recollected, that a filly of his get won the Oaks in 1808."; "You must admit that the bastard get of Paul Atreides would be no more than juicy morsels for those two [tigers]."; "‘You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’"dated
2. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
3. (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.Examples: "I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine."informal
noun (English)
1. (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).Examples: "Kylie: Oi, Bono! You lazy get! Have you finished my song yet?"Synonyms: gitIrelandUKregional
noun (English)
1. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.Examples: "In Israel, rabbinic courts can imprison men until they acquiesce and grant gets to their wives."Judaism
Definition source: Wiktionary