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| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Breton (kerzh da garc'hat), English (fuck oneself ), Romanian ((du-te-n) moas~-ta pe ghiat~á ), Russian (Oto'idi, a to jebnu). (references) |
Slang | To go away, fuck oneself. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: GET LOST |
| English words defined with "GET LOST": disappear ♦ go away ♦ labyrinth ♦ maze ♦ vanish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GET LOST": bang path ♦ fuck oneself , fuck yourself. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | So you don't get lost. (Big; writing credit: Gary Ross; Anne Spielberg) They'd get lost, Marcie. (A Charlie Brown Celebration; writing credit: Charles M. Schulz) Jack get lost, I'm not done! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) Get lost! (The Twilight Zone; writing credit: J. Michael Straczynski; Paul Chitlik) Wellat least now I know what to name him. I don't suppose you know who the father is, so I won't tell him to get lost when I meet him? (The Terminator; writing credit: James Cameron; Gale Anne Hurd) | |
Lyrics | I get lost in your eyes (Lost In Your Eyes; performing artist: Debbie Gibson) Let's get lost tonight (Let's Make Love (with Tim McGraw); performing artist: Faith Hill) The insecurity is the thing that won't get lost (NO ONE IS TO BLAME; performing artist: Howard Jones) I still get lost in your eyes, (Goodbye To You; performing artist: Michelle Branch) When people get lost like you and me (Heartlight; performing artist: Neil Diamond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Get Lost Little Doggy (1964) Let's Get Lost (1988) Get Lost! (1981) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Get lost. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Get lost, kid!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is stupid to get lost like that for people of any age. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | If that does not work, then he still may not pay the ticket, as many tickets eventually get lost in the processing system. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | But the call of the future is too strong, the challenge too great to get lost in the blind alleyways of dissolution, drugs, and despair. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
get lost | 19 |
let get lost | 4 |
get lost love over | 3 |
back get lost love | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GET LOST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضاع (to get lost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vypadni (beat it, clear off, scram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zoek raken (be lost), wegraken (be lost), verloren gaan (be lost, drown), teloorgaan (be lost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | perdiĝi (be lost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hukkua (be drowned, be lost, drown), eksyä (err, go astray, lose one's way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | se perdre, se paumer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verlorengehen (be lost, be wasted, to be lost, to get lost), sich verlaufen (abscond, disappear, disperse, drain away, lose smb.'s way), sich verirren (aberrate, go astray, lose smb.'s way, roam, stray, stray off, to get lost, to lose one's way), abhanden kommen (to get lost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χάνω το δρόμο (miss one's turning), χάνομαι (disappear, lose out, perish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לאבו" "רך (go astray, lose one's way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kézen-közön elvész (to get lost eventually). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tercecer (get lost from, lost, scattered about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | smarrire (astray, get confused, lose, lose one's way, mislay), perdere (be mislaid, be ruined, cast, leak, lose, lose oneself, mislay, Miss, pass up, ruin, shed, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 逸れる (to get lost, to go astray, to stray turn from subject), 逸れる (to get lost, to go astray, to strayfrom subject), 逸る (to be hotblooded, to be impatient, to be in high spirits, to get lost, to stray from), 無くなる (to disappear, to get lost), 無くなる (to disappear, to get lost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | なくなる (to die, to disappear, to get lost), それる (to get lost, to go astray, to strayfrom subject), はぐれる (to get lost, to go astray, to strayfrom subject), はぐる (to get lost, to stray from). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etgay ostlay perder‐se. (various references) lua-te-ar aghiuţã. (various references) теряться (go astray). (various references) zalutati (astray: go astray, stray, wry). (various references) pierden, perder contacto, extraviarse (aberrate, err, go astray, go wrong, lose oneself, miscarry, straggle, stray, stray off, wander). (various references) vilse (astray, lost), förkomma (miscarry). (various references) azaюmak. (various references) заблукати (be lost, wilder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-l-o-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: lottes. | |
-2 letters: gelts, glost, loges, lotte, ogles, stole, telos, toles, totes. | |
-3 letters: egos, gels, gelt, gest, gets, goes, legs, lest, lets, loge, logs, lose, lost, lots, ogle, oles, sego, sett, sloe, slog, slot, sole, stet, tegs, tels, test, tets, toes, togs, tole, tost, tote, tots. | |
-4 letters: ego, els, gel, get, gos, got, leg, let. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-l-o-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: glottides, glottises, plottages, tollgates. | |
+3 letters: cetologist, epiglottis, ethologist, fetologist, ghostliest, gluttonies, larghettos, lorgnettes. | |
+4 letters: allegrettos, altogethers, cetologists, egotistical, ethnologist, ethologists, etymologist, fetologists, gestational, graptolites, metrologist, osteologist, outglitters, petrologist, poltergeist, spotlighted, stilettoing, tautologies, teleologist, tetralogies, thoughtless, troglodytes. | |
+5 letters: battlewagons, deglutitions, deontologist, entomologist, epiglottides, epiglottises, ethnologists, etymologists, gesticulator, glutathiones, hematologist, legitimators, metrologists, nematologist, nightclothes, osteologists, outwrestling, petrologists, poltergeists, proglottides, silhouetting, snaggletooth, stigmasterol, storytelling, technologist, teleologists, teratologies, teratologist. | |
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