getter
a person or thing that gets.
any substance introduced into a partial vacuum, as the interior of a vacuum tube or an incandescent lamp, to combine chemically with the residual gas in order to increase the vacuum.
Chiefly Canadian. poisoned bait used to exterminate wolves, gophers, and other pests from farm areas.
Origin of getter
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How to use getter in a sentence
The independent and go-getter spirit started young, with the band plastering posters throughout the Windy City.
OK Go Is Helping Redefine the Music Video For the Internet Age | Lauren Schwartzberg | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe is certainly a risk-taker and attention-getter, but often for matters of costume, props, and behavior.
He is, by all accounts, brilliant; a dashing, urbane go-getter who exudes charm.
This Scary-Smart New Minister of Economy Might Just Turn France Around | Tracy McNicoll | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSchnur raised about half a million dollars while top vote getter Democrat Alex Padilla raised over $2 million.
Candidates in Maine, Nebraska, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., Challenge Republicans and Democrats Alike | Linda Killian | July 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIraqis just held elections on April 30, and, although Maliki was the top vote-getter, many more people voted against him.
The Marble Game-getter comes the nearest to it of any now made, but that is not just to my liking.
Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper | Eldred Nathaniel WoodcockI took the short bow and arrows, as game getter; but we left the rifle for the71 camp.
Pluck on the Long Trail | Edwin L. SabinIf he had come on working as a getter, I should ha' been nowhere; he's a weigher now and makes fat, and his muscles are flabby.
Facing Death | G. A. HentyThen, at no time to his death was he a sure foal getter, even to a few mares.
I hadn't saved none, thinkin' I'd got Rockefeller skinned to death as a money-getter.
Bulldog Carney | W. A. Fraser
British Dictionary definitions for getter
/ (ˈɡɛtə) /
a person or thing that gets
a substance, usually a metal such as titanium, evaporated onto the walls of a vacuum tube, vessel, etc, to adsorb the residual gas and lower the pressure
(tr) to remove (a gas) by the action of a getter
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