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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In the past, words or phrases deemed to have stepped over the line include "impertinent dog", "cad", "blethering", "guttersnipe" and "git".
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 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
If that hurricane don’t git ya, them gators likely will in the Florida-set 2019 disaster flick/creature feature “Crawl.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2020
All those summers breaking horses with Grandpa, and the only advice I remembered him giving was, “Whate’er you do, don’t git your foot caught in the stirrup.”
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
Talented hardworkers won, lazy gits lost; good people got to stay on the pitch, bad people were sent off or worse.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2010
“All right. But send him on up soon as he gits th’ew.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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