git
Americannoun
noun
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a contemptible person, often a fool
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a bastard
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
And when they come down sick they go’n git well or die, one, jest same as the prayin’ folks.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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