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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

get someone at it en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (slang, transitive) To have someone on, make fun of someone.
    • What he did'nt(sic) realise was that the boggie(sic - bogey(police officer)) was getting her at it. 1958, Frank Norman, chapter 3, in Bang to Rights: An Account of Prison Life, page 151:
    • You see I did this on perpose(sic) just to get her at it. 1958, Frank Norman, chapter 3, in Bang to Rights: An Account of Prison Life, page 136:
  2. (slang, transitive) To get someone in a cycle of pointless iterations.
    • I don't mean to get you at it, but can you make further changes to your article?

Forms

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gets someone at it Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
gotten someone at it Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
getting someone at it Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
got someone at it Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got someone at it Tense=Past lexicographic