get busy

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get busy (third-person singular simple present gets busy, present participle getting busy, simple past got busy, past participle (UK) got busy or (US) gotten busy)

1. (informal) To cease to be idle and start working.

   Stop playing computer games, and get busy with your homework.

2. (informal) To have sex.

   The couple were getting busy in the front room when the doorbell rang.

   • 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     Homer and Marge have to try to explain things to children who are too worldly to fall for most excuses, the explanation trails off, and what could be a pleasant family outing to solve it all turns out to be yet another excuse for self-involvement when one public humiliation doesn’t outweigh the joys of getting busy in a windmill.

   • 2007, Half Life 2 Episode Two:

     Alyx Vance: Did Dr. Kleiner just say to everyone that they should get busy?

   • 2019 August 22, “Book 20: Sergeant In Motion — Part I”, in Schlock Mercenary‎:

     Thurl: Are you busy?
     Alexia: Really? The days pass like decades in here, Thurl. We won't be busy until that worldship decides to talk back to us.
     Thurl: And yet, you have been…
     Alexia: Thurl. If you say "getting busy" I will punch you so hard you'll have to spawn child processes just to feel all the pain.

• (to have sex): get freaky, get it on, get laid; see also Thesaurus:copulate