git
Americannoun
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gits
plural
noun
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a contemptible person, often a fool
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a bastard
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of git
First recorded in 1945–50; variant of get
Example Sentences
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“We’re talking serious business: barbed wire, machine-gun towers and a 300-pound guy with no neck and a cowboy hat saying, ‘Hey rock star, git over here, boy.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
To “I Feel Pretty”: I bought Twitter, don’t be bitter, I will git ’er much fitter, you’ll see I’m no quitter — there’s no leader more steadfast than me!
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022
After fires, illness and neighbor squabbles, the book ends with the youngest Slater boy, Shoestring, wanting “to git book-larnin’.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2021
I have a home, children, friends, a resurrected career and no miserable old git asking how much my boots cost.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2020
Well, I better git on home and see about Bubba.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
We had half of our gits wrapped and bagged and ready to go out the door.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
PwC has hit back at comments by Lord Alan Sugar in which he branded its staff "lazy gits", after the accountancy giant said workers could take Friday afternoons off over summer.
From BBC ● May 10, 2022
Of course, for the old gits among us, it’s impossible to conceive of Everton in the FA Cup without immediately conceiving on 1985’s seminal Wogan appearance.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2022
Where were all those smug gits who'd spent the last year or two holding dinner parties so that they could boast about their box sets of The Wire?
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2011
"Ever time I think of how cold it was and what a hard time we was having I gits the shakes."
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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