go-getter

[ goh-get-er, -get- ]
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nounInformal.
  1. an enterprising, aggressive person.

Origin of go-getter

1
1920–25, Americanism; probably from the exhortation Go get 'em!;see -er1

Other words from go-getter

  • go-getting, adjective

Words Nearby go-getter

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How to use go-getter in a sentence

  • If it was anybody else I'd say it was crazy, but you're such a doggoned hellion of a go-getter mebbe you can put it over.

    Oh, You Tex! | William Macleod Raine
  • That would put him right up in the go-getter class, which is the class I want to see Kay marry into.

    The Pride of Palomar | Peter B. Kyne
  • I'm sending you there, Harrison, because your record indicates that you're a go-getter.

    Monsoons of Death | Gerald Vance
  • Applehead, I may here explain, was an ex-sheriff, and what range men call a "go-getter."

  • Mr. Golightly was no bookworm, but he knew about Achievements, as what seasoned go-getter did not?

    Ladies and Gentlemen  | Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

British Dictionary definitions for go-getter

go-getter

noun
  1. informal an ambitious enterprising person

Derived forms of go-getter

  • go-getting, adjective

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