get it on

1. Become filled with energy or excitement; enthusiastically begin. For example, If you're ready to start rehearsing, let's get it on . [ Slang ; c. 1950]

2. Engage in sexual intercourse, as in They were about to get it on when the doorbell rang . [ Slang ; 1970s]

Example Sentences

After nestling and nuzzling through a long, sweaty night, they got it on just before dawn, he told me.

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When Reed got it on his wing, he stepped and flew away to the try-line.

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It would have made powerful TV footage but I don’t think we got it on camera.

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And the local school district got it on the act with electric school buses, and the town has buses that are electric.

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At that point, the crowd can be heard reacting to an officer’s punch, with at least one bystander saying she got it on video.

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