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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Yet Donald said Cronje was a "tight git" when it came to things as simple as buying post-match drinks.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025
“We’re talking serious business: barbed wire, machine-gun towers and a 300-pound guy with no neck and a cowboy hat saying, ‘Hey rock star, git over here, boy.’”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 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
“You git on back to bed, fo I has you on my hands dis mawnin too.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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