Dictionary

get into en · VERB

Meanings

1. To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
   • She got into the car.
   • Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
2. To put on (an item of clothing).
   • I'm soaking wet. I need to get into some dry clothes.
3. To reach into or interact with (an object).
   • The small child got into everything.
4. To become involved or interested in (a discussion, issue, or activity); to come to enjoy (something).
   • He got into politics.
   • My sister has got into flower arranging recently.
5. To enter (an unfavourable state).
   • How did we get into such a mess?
6. To cause to behave uncharacteristically; to possess.
   • I don't know what's gotten into that child.
7. To interrogate in order to arrive at a deeper understanding.
   • Arteta could not wait to get into his players during the drinks break and they re-emerged with greater intensity 2020 August 1, David Hytner, “Aubameyang at the double as Arsenal turn tables on Chelsea to win FA Cup”, in The Guardian:
8. To penetrate (someone) sexually.
9. To owe money to (someone); to become involved in something unsavory.
   • He's gotten into the gang to the tune of five grand.
10. To argue about or discuss (something).
    • Oh let's not get into that again.
    • Well, I think she knows but it's something we really don't get into. 1986, Joseph Beam, quoting "Emmett", “Emmett's Story: Russell County, Alabama”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 162:

Forms

Translations (38)

pt dar (to make behave uncharacteristically) · es meterse en (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · hu foglalkozni kezd (to become involved in a discussion or issue) · hu érdeklődni kezd (to become involved in a discussion or issue) · hu kerül (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · pt meter-se em (to become involved in a discussion or issue) · hu keveredik (to enter an unfavourable state) · hu belebújik (to put on (an item of clothing)) · hu kerül (to enter an unfavourable state) · es subirse a (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · es adentrarse en (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · pt entrar em (to become involved in a discussion or issue) · pl wstąpić (to make behave uncharacteristically) · hu bejut (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · es entrar a (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · es entrar en (to become involved in a discussion or issue) · es meterse a (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · hu beleüt (to make behave uncharacteristically) · es meterse en (to become involved in a discussion or issue) · da gå af (to make behave uncharacteristically) · hu belekerül (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · es caer en (to enter an unfavourable state) · pt entrar em (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · da rode ude i (to enter an unfavourable state) · hu nyúl (to reach into an object) · hu belekeveredik (to enter an unfavourable state) · hu bújik (to put on (an item of clothing)) · hu jut (to enter an unfavourable state) · es adentrarse en (to become involved in a discussion or issue) · hu gurul (to enter an unfavourable state) · pl wstępować (to make behave uncharacteristically) · hu jut (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · hu belenyúl (to reach into an object) · hu beszáll (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · hu esik (to enter an unfavourable state) · es entrar en (to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it) · hu jön (to enter an unfavourable state) · da komme ind på (to become involved in a discussion or issue)