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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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
In his memoir, he recalls the harp player explaining, “That’s how you git it dirty — make them notes bend.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 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
Parliament's website lists examples of words that might be considered offensive, including "stoolpigeon", "blackguard", "coward", "git", "guttersnipe", "hooligan" and "rat".
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2019
Mrs. Avery down the street kept saying, “Now don’t y’all git your hopes up too much. I seen it many a time—a sick person gits better just fore they go’n die.”
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
Dad laughs at the way Becky squeals when she gits a bug in her hand.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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