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[edit]Verb
[edit]get into (third-person singular simple present gets into, present participle getting into, simple past got into, past participle (UK) got into or (US) gotten into)
- To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
- She got into the car.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 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.
- To put on (an item of clothing).
- I'm soaking wet. I need to get into some dry clothes.
- To reach into or interact with (an object).
- The small child got into everything.
- 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.
- To enter (an unfavourable state).
- How did we get into such a mess?
- To cause to behave uncharacteristically; to possess.
- I don't know what's gotten into that child.
- To interrogate in order to arrive at a deeper understanding.
- 2020 August 1, David Hytner, “Aubameyang at the double as Arsenal turn tables on Chelsea to win FA Cup”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Arteta could not wait to get into his players during the drinks break and they re-emerged with greater intensity
- To penetrate (someone) sexually.
- To owe money to (someone); to become involved in something unsavory.
- He's gotten into the gang to the tune of five grand.
- To argue about (something).
- Oh let's not get into that again.
Translations
[edit]to move into an object, such that one ends up inside it
to become involved in a discussion or issue
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to enter an unfavourable state
to make behave uncharacteristically