GET LOST

  

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GET LOST

Specialty Definition: GET LOST

DomainDefinition

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.

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Crosswords: GET LOST

English words defined with "GET LOST": disappeargo awaylabyrinthmazevanish. (references)
Specialty definitions using "GET LOST": bang pathfuck oneself , fuck yourself. (references)

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Modern Usage: GET LOST

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: GET LOST

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Books

  • Get Lost! The Cool Guide to Amsterdam (reference)

  • You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (Women Writing Africa) (reference)

  • We Gather Together...Now Please Get Lost! (Here's Gilbert) (reference)

  • Get Lost! (Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo, 6) (reference)

  • Ireland for Beginners Or Get Lost In Ire (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: GET LOST

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Get lost. Credit: Library of Congress.

Get lost, kid!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: GET LOST

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: GET LOST

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Speeches: GET LOST

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989But 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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GET LOST

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: GET LOST

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

   

Portuguese

  

perder‐se. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

lua-te-ar aghiuţã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

теряться (go astray). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zalutati (astray: go astray, stray, wry). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pierden, perder contacto, extraviarse (aberrate, err, go astray, go wrong, lose oneself, miscarry, straggle, stray, stray off, wander). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vilse (astray, lost), förkomma (miscarry). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

azaюmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

заблукати (be lost, wilder). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GET LOST

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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