make it

1. Also, make it to . Reach a certain point or goal, as in Do you think she'll make it to graduation? or We finally made it to Chicago . [c. 1900]

2. Succeed; also, win acceptance. For example, When he won the prize he realized he'd finally made it , or Jane longed to make it with the crowd from Society Hill . [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]

3. Also, make it with . Have sexual intercourse, as in Tom bragged that he'd made it with Sue last night . [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

She has asked Ofcom to look into whether the 30-day switching period makes it easy enough for consumers to move to another provider.

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Its market capitalization of around $5 trillion makes it the world’s most valuable company.

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It’s Koufax running down to the bullpen in the second game of a doubleheader in Philadelphia that the Dodgers had to win in order to make it to the World Series and saying, “I’m available.”

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In 2010, a landslide in the Ugandan town of Bududa killed about 300 people, making it one of the country's most devastating natural disasters.

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Their approach intimately connected the production of the pigment with the survival of the bacterium that made it.

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