git

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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

But they go’n git jest bout as much or as little in the way a-earthly goods as the rest of us.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns