GET BEHIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get behind mean? 

• GET BEHIND (verb)
  The verb GET BEHIND has 1 sense:

1. to lag or linger behind

  Familiarity information: GET BEHIND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET BEHIND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To lag or linger behind

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

drag; drop back; drop behind; get behind; hang back; trail

Context example:

But in so many other areas we still are dragging

Hypernyms (to "get behind" is one way to...):

dawdle; fall back; fall behind; lag (hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

"This is my fight," said the Woodman, "so get behind me and I will meet them as they come."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

And here, sure enough, is my mate Bill, with a spy-glass under his arm, bless his old 'art, to be sure. You and me'll just go back into the parlour, sonny, and get behind the door, and we'll give Bill a little surprise—bless his 'art, I say again.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Get behind him, Watson!

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)