get back
See also: getback
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get back (third-person singular simple present gets back, present participle getting back, simple past got back, past participle (UK) got back or (US) gotten back)
- (intransitive) Return to where one came from.
- When I get back from holiday, I expect the house to be tidy.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
- 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
- The night air may have sobered him a bit by the time they got back to Beattock.
- (intransitive, with with or to) Reply (to someone); follow up (with someone).
- (transitive) To retrieve (something); to have (something) returned.
- I lent her my guitar over the Christmas holidays, and will get it back when the term starts.
- (transitive, often with at or against) To do something to hurt or harm (someone) who has hurt or harmed one; to take revenge.
- I'll get you back for this!
- I'll get him back for this!
- I'll get back at all of them for this!
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Translations
to return to where one came from
to retrieve, to have an item returned
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