Phrase guide

get some

verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

verb

Meaning 1

To have sex.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, euphemistic, informal

Examples

  • So, did you get some with him?
  • I'm going to that new club to get some tonight.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: do it, get busy, get it on, 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 down, get freaky, get it, get jiggy, get laid, get lucky, 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 some, 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 it, 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

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verb

Meaning 2

To be involved in a fight or assault.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Examples

  • The young Marine was spoiling for a fight; he hoped to get some during his next tour of duty.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: do battle, get it on

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Reduced from get (some) action.