Phrase guide

get it

intj · verb · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

intj

Meaning 1

Used to encourage someone, especially to indicate that someone is doing something well.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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intj

Meaning 2

Do you understand? Have you heard? (after explaining or giving an order)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial

Examples

  • Don't ever touch my computer. Get it?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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intj

Meaning 3

Used to draw attention to a pun or other joke one has made.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, it.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • If you order the pizza, I'll go get it.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To understand something; to catch on; to fully appreciate its implications.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • If they aren't getting it, explain it a different way.
  • I thought it was hilarious, but she didn't get it.
  • Hey, I get it — interpersonal diplomacy can be challenging. But we must at least try.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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verb

Meaning 6

To receive a negative thing: to receive punishment; to receive a retaliation; to receive a beating; to get what's coming to one; to feel someone's wrath.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: idiomatic

Examples

  • After the way she spoke to him, she's really going to get it this time.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: catch it, cop it, catch hell

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To be struck (as an act of violence).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

Examples

  • If you don't put away that smug little smile I swear you'll get it right in the teeth.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To have sex, especially referring to its possibility or eventuality.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: euphemistic, slang

Examples

  • He could get it if he just had more confidence.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: do it, get it on, get some, get lucky, make it, approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, intercourse, know, know someone in the biblical sense, make love, mate, share a bed, sleep together, strain, bang, bauf, beat, bone, boff, boink, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, clap cheeks, dance, discuss Uganda, dip one's pen in someone's inkwell, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, expletive deleted, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get busy, get down, get freaky, get it, get jiggy, get laid, get one's dick wet, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get the dirty water off one's chest, graft the forked tree, go all the way, haul one's ashes, have it away, have it off, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hide the wienie, hike the Appalachian Trail, hook up, hump, jig-jig, knock boots, lay pipe, lay the pipe, make out, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, meddle, ming, Netflix and chill, penetrate, pipe, pipe down, play, play hide the sausage, pound, rail, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, screw, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, shaboink, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, stick, tumble

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

understand, usually after some initial difficulty

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend

10

verb

Meaning 10

receive punishment

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • You are going to get it!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: tajuta — to understand something
  • German: verstehen — to understand something
  • Polish: rozumieć — to understand something
  • Polish: zrozumieć — to understand something
  • Polish: jarzyć — to understand something
  • Polish: zajarzyć — to understand something
  • Polish: czaić — to understand something
  • Polish: sczaić — to understand something
  • Portuguese: pegar a visão — to understand something
  • Spanish: dar en ello — to understand something
  • Spanish: caer en cuenta — to understand something
  • Spanish: caer en la cuenta — to understand something
  • Spanish: caer el veinte — to understand something
  • Finnish: tuntea nahoissaan — to get what's coming to one
  • Polish: doigrać się — to get what's coming to one
  • Polish: dostawać — to be struck
  • Polish: dostać — to be struck
  • Finnish: saada — to have sex, referring to its eventuality
  • Polish: zaliczać — to have sex, referring to its eventuality
  • Polish: zaliczyć — to have sex, referring to its eventuality