git

Example Sentences

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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

Parliament's website lists examples of words that might be considered offensive, including "stoolpigeon", "blackguard", "coward", "git", "guttersnipe", "hooligan" and "rat".

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2019

“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