get it on
English
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Verb
editget it on (third-person singular simple present gets it on, present participle getting it on, simple past got it on, past participle (UK) got it on or (US) gotten it on)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, it, on.
- Where's your coat? Get it on and let's get out of here.
- (slang) To have sex.
- I can see the sparks between us. Let's get it on, baby!
- 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- The unfortunate thing about calling the season seven finale “The Dragon And The Wolf” is you can’t even reference it by name without picturing Daenerys Targaryen’s long-awaited hook-up with Jon Snow, her strapping hunk of an ally and also her nephew. It’s a hell of an episode, the dining car on this bullet train, not least because the dragon and the wolf got it on.
- (slang) To engage in a fight.
- You want a piece of me? OK, let's get it on!.
- (idiomatic) To hurry up; to get a move on; to start.
- I need to get it on: there's not much time left.
Synonyms
edit- (to have sex): do it, get it, make it; see also Thesaurus:copulate
- (to engage in a fight): do battle, get some,
- (to hurry up): get a wiggle on, get one's ass in gear, get one's skates on, get the lead out; see also Thesaurus:speed up