GET IT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get it mean? 

• GET IT (verb)
  The verb GET IT has 2 senses:

1. understand, usually after some initial difficulty

2. receive punishment

  Familiarity information: GET IT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET IT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Understand, usually after some initial difficulty

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

catch on; cotton on; get it; get onto; get wise; latch on; tumble; twig

Context example:

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

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

apprehend; compass; comprehend; dig; get the picture; grasp; grok; savvy (get the meaning of something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Receive punishment

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

You are going to get it!

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

If you need help to achieve a goal, reach out, for with your current star power, you’ll get it.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He remembered, if he did not get it, that there was no way for him to go back to Oakland.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Very well," answered the little man; "I will get it for you."

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

More men than women get it.

(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

But if that face belongs to a transgender person, such systems get it wrong more than one third of the time, according to new CU Boulder research.

(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)

Then the wild man said: “It lies under your mother’s pillow, you can get it there.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He had not time to get it from the sheath before I had the harpoon through him.

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

What you need is rest, and I should like you to remain and get it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I thought I’d get it either with Mr. Beddoes or with you.

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

You get it from eating raw or undercooked poultry.

(Campylobacter Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)