Get Out

Definition: Get Out

Get Out

Verb

1. Move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country".

2. Take out of a container or enclosed space; "Get out your best dress--we are going to a party!".

3. Move out or away; "The troops pulled out after the cease-fire".

4. Express with difficulty; "I managed to get out a few words".

5. Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim".

6. Be released or become known; of news; "News of her death broke in the morning".

7. Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!" "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Get Out

Avoidance

Avoid, shun; steer clear of, keep clear of; fight shy of; keep one's distance, keep at a respectful distance; keep out of the way, get out of the way; evade, elude, turn away from; set one's face against; (oppose); deny oneself.

Ejection

Embowel, disbowel, disembowel; eviscerate, gut; unearth, root out, root up; averuncate; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate.

Extraction

Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.

Memory

Sink in the mind; run in the head; not be able to get out of one's head; be deeply impressed with; rankle; (revenge).

Plunge

Get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow.

Publication

Verb: publish; make public, make known; (information); speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice.

Crosswords: Get Out

Dammit, woman, if you don't get out of this car and go to your kid, I'm going to have you arrested for stupidity (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

That's how we're gonna get out. (Superman II; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

His partner was supposed to get out of the car and back him up but never did. My father was just as devoted as you, and now he's dead, and for what (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

When I get out, I'm gonna come visit you. Have some real fun (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison)

I guarantee that at some time, one or both of us is gonna want to get out of this thing (Runaway Bride; writing credit: Josann McGibbon; Sara Parriott)

But couldn't get out the door (Amazing; performing artist: Aerosmith)

How I'll ever get out of this I don't know (I Get Weak; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

If I could get out of this place ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

Turnaround, Every now and then I get a little bit angry and I know I've got to get out and cry (TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART; performing artist: Bonnie Tyler)

Make it too tough for the enemy to get in, and you can't get out. (references; author: unknown)

A politician will find an excuse to get out of anything, except office. (references; author: unknown)

I think I've found the trouble with our economy. There are far more ways to get into debt than there are to get out of it. (references; author: unknown)

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but he she can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. (references; author: unknown)

Get Out of Town (1960)

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (1992)

Get Out the Vote (1988)

Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out of (performing artist: U2)

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

Books

• Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-By-Step Guide to Helping You Decide Whether to Stay in or Get Out of Your Relationship (reference)

• Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior (reference)

• Debt-Free Living: How to Get Out of Debt (And Stay Out (reference)

• The Get Out of Debt Kit: Your Roadmap to Total Financial Freedom (reference)

• If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Get Out Your Hankerchiefs (reference)

• Get Out of My Room (reference)

• Learning to Surf with Surfer Joe, Part 2: Get Out, Get Up & Go! (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• P.D.Q. Bach: Music You Can't Get Out Of Your Head (reference)

• Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Photograph of Nazi submariner foot trying to get out of submarine escape hatch Office of Strategic Services project to find sunken vessels with new technology Ray Tryon and John O. Phillips worked off USCGC GENTIAN in 1944 Example of early surface controlled ocean bottom photography. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

AH! It's great to get out into the solitude and wilds for a little angling!. Credit: Fisheries.

Get out, will you, she stormed. Credit: Library of Congress.

You get out o' here before I fill you full o' shot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Get out of here! there's not room for both of us!. Credit: Library of Congress.

People have become very wise : exactly one year ago they decided to get out of the market. Credit: Library of Congress.

79 varieties. Depew: If I get out of these by the time I am 72 I will be able to do my real work in the Senate. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hit the bull's eye!--Is your name on this list? Get out of your own little circle of selfishness into the big circle of service. Credit: Library of Congress.

American imperialist get out of South Viet Nam. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. imperialism, get out of South Viet Nam!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This, if barely so, is rather mockery than relief; and men can never be secure from tyranny, if there be no means to escape it till they are perfectly under it: and therefore it is, that they have not only a right to get out of it, but to prevent it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again

He did not get out of the tilbury

He could not get out the answer for the sum but it did not matter

Got to get out quick now.

They seemed glad to get out themselves, and as if unwilling to be brought in.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Indonesia

Appointment of an Indonesian agent (or distributor) requires care, since it is difficult to get out of a bad relationship. (references)

Political Economy

Ireland

At the same time, the Ahern government has suffered some political setbacks in the first half of 2001. The rejection by referendum of the EU's binding Nice Treaty reflected poorly on the government, as it failed to get out the vote or answer concerns about the pace and direction of EU integration. (references)

Worker Rights

Albania

Parliament members attempted to impeach three members of the Supreme Court over their conduct in a high-profile case of trafficking in persons, which allowed a suspect to get out on bail and flee the country; however, the impeachment failed, in part due to lack of adequate evidence and proper investigation by prosecutors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "get out": all get out ♦ get out a balance ♦ get out af the bed ♦ get out af the bed on the wrong side ♦ get out all of you! ♦ get out from under ♦ get out of ♦ get out of a habit ♦ get out of a mess ♦ get out of bed ♦ get out of bed on the wrong side ♦ get out of control ♦ get out of hand ♦ get out of here! ♦ get out of it ♦ get out of my sight! ♦ get out of one's depth ♦ get out of order ♦ get out of pawn ♦ get out of ruck ♦ get out of shape ♦ get out of sight ♦ get out of smb.'s mind ♦ get out of the habit ♦ get out of the way ♦ get out of true ♦ get out safe and sound ♦ get out you! ♦ i will get out ♦ not be able to get out of one's head. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afklim (get, get out of a car). (various references)

Albanian

shpëtoj (bring off, bring through, carry through, creep out, deliver, elude, escape, extricate, flee, get away, get off the hook, get rid, get rid of, heal, preserve, rescue, rid, salvage, save, skip, spare), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), ik (begone, blast off, clear off, depart, escape, exit, fly away, get along, get away, give the guy to, go, go away, go off, go out, hence, leave, make away, make off, make one's bow, make oneself scarce, move away, pass, pass off, push off, retire, run away, run off, shoot through, take away, take off), hallakatem (be dispersed, get about, get abroad), dal (appear, arise, beetle, brush off, come into being, come out, come up, creep out, develop, egress, emerge, erupt, exhaust, exit, flow out, get out of, go out, leave, let out, open, run out, sprout, stand out, stick up, turn out, turn up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, elope, escape, fled, flee, fleeing, fly, get away, get out of, powder, put to flight, run away, run first, run from smb., run off, shun, slope, smuggle, take flight, take to one's heels, tamper, traffic, turn tail), ‏نزع من (get out of), ‏لا يستطيع التحكم (get out of hand), ‏تعذر عليه السيطرة على (get out of control), ‏تخلص من (clear off, disembarrass, disengage, disposal, dispose of, ditch, do dispose of, doff, drown, elimination, escape, exorcise, exorcize, free, get out of, get rid of, jettison, liquidate, mop up, outgrow, polish up, put off, rid, scrap, sell up, shake, shake off, slough, turn, turn off, weed, weed out, work off), ‏خلص نفسه (get out of). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стига бе, излизам (add up, blow up, come, come away, come off, come out, emerge, exit, get out of, go about, go out, issue, jump, pan out, propound, prove, pull out, rise, run off, sally, set up, shoot out, step off, turn out, walk out, work out), избягвам (abscond, break loose, break out, circumnavigate, dodge, elope, elude, escape, evade, gallop away, get away, get off, go off, make a break for it, mizzle, obviate, prevent, run, run away, run off, scarper, scuttle away, shrink away, shun, skirt around, skitter, take flight). (various references)

Chinese 

躲 (avoid, get out of way, to go into hiding, to hide), 走開 (Get out of the way!), �"開 (to get out of the way, to step aside), 台階 (chance to get out from an embarrassing situation, flight of steps). (various references)

Czech

vytrhnout (extract, tear, tear out, whisk), vystoupit (alight, disembark, get down, get off, get out of, get out(of), remount, secede, stand up, step off), vydat (betray, bring out, disburse, edit, expend, extradite, hand over, issue, outlay, release, render, surrender), ven (out, out of, outward), odstranit (ablate, clear away, discharge, dismantle, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, remove, supersede, sweep, take away). (various references)

Danish

stige ud (exit, get out of a car, go out). (various references)

Dutch

uitstappen (exit, get out of a car, go out). (various references)

Esperanto

elvagoniĝi, elaŭtiĝi (get out of a car). (various references)

Finnish

tulla tietoon (become known). (various references)

French

sortez, fichez le camp, descendre (get down, get off, get out of a car). (various references)

Frisian

ôfwenne (break of a habit, break oneself of a habit, get out of a habit, teach, unlearn), ôfleare (break oneself of a habit, get out of a habit, unlearn). (various references)

German

aussteigen (alight, bail out, bale out, cop out, cry off, disembark, drop out, exit, get off, get out of a car, give up, jump off, jump out, opt out, pull out, retire, to disembark, to exit, to get off, to get out, to step off). (various references)

Greek 

βγαίνω (come off, come out, go out, leave a room), ξεφεύγω (bilk, dodge, escape, evade, get away, leak, slip), μαθεύομαι, εξέρχομαι (come out, exit, go out, issue), εξάγω (deduce, derive, educe, elicit, export, extract). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפרסם (advertise, announce, give out, issue, publicize, publish), ל�"תחמק (dodge, elude, eschew, evade, get away, hedge, run around, shirk, sneak, stall, wriggle), לצאת (emerge, exit, go, go away, go out, pull out), כלך לך, �'ש �"לא�" (go away), צא מכאן. (various references)

Hungarian

kivesz (elicit, make out, pull out, take out, to draw out, to except, to expel, to rent, to scour away, to take out, to unclench, to unclinch), kihúz (cross out, delete, drag out, draw out, obliterate, protract, pull off, pull out, score out, scratch out, spin out, strike out, to delete, to educe, to excise, to extract, to extricate, to line through, to obliterate, to protract, to pull out, to pull up, to rive sg away, to rive sg off, to unclench, to unclinch). (various references)

Indonesian

keluar (exit, go out, out, quit), enyah (go away). (various references)

Italian

guarire (care for, convalesce, cure, heal, recover, recruit, treat), uscire (be drawn, be issued, be turned out, come out, exit, go, go out, leave, stick up, walk out), togliersi (doff, shake off, shed), togliere (decrease, disfranchise, free, go away, lose weight, peel back, pick, pull, put, put off, quench, raise, relieve, remove, slim, strip, take, take away, take from, take off, take out, wear off, wipe away), spillare (broach, draw, draw off, pull, tap, worm), sottrarre (abstract, appropriate, deduct, deprive, detract, evade, purloin, rescue, shirk, steal, subtract), scendere (alight, come down, decrease, descend, dip, dismount, drop, fall, get, get down, get off, go, go down, hang down, lower oneself, sink, slope, step down, to go down), ritrarre (depict, divert, draw back, picture, portray, portray oneself, represent, retract), levare (abolish, get up, levy, lift, quench, raise, remove, rise, subtract, take away, take off, take out, upbeat, withdraw), immettere (admit, get into, introduce, lead to, let, pump, pump in, put in). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

帰れる (Go home), 帰れ (Go home). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かえれる (Go home), かえれ (Go home). (various references)

Manx

geddyn magh (dig out), aarlaghey (dressing, groom, prepare, qualify, train). (various references)

Pig Latin

etgay outay.(various references)

Portuguese

ultrapassar (better, break, cross, distance, exceed, excel, go beyond, outbalance, outbid, outclass, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outlive, outmarch, outpace, outrun, outstrip, out-top, outvie, overhaul, overpass, overreach, override, overshoot, overtake, overtop, pass by, surpass, transcend, transfer, transgress, whop), sair (back off, depart, draw out, exit, flit, get off, go out, issue, leave, move away, move out, pull out, take off, to come out, to get out, to go out, tumble), publicar (announce, bill, bring out, create, issue, print, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, reveal, set out), ir embora (get away, go away, leave, make off, off, put out, take off), descobrir (ascertain, bare, bewray, denudate, denude, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, elicit, espy, find, find out, hunt out, hunt up, identify, lay open, lay up bare, open, pioneer, poke about, publicize, reveal, see, show up, spell out, strike, surprise, to discover, uncap, uncloak, unclose, uncover, unearth, unkennel, unmask, unveil). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

sair (to get out, to go out). (various references)

Romanian

se rãspândi (be abroad, be in the air, diffuse, grow, overspread, penetrate, run, se rãspândi, spread), marş (away, forward, get away, get out of here, March, parade), ieşi afarã (out, out of my sight), ieşi (appear, be gone, become, come out, draw out, erupt, escape, exhaust, exit, fade, go out, issue, result, run, spring, start, start out, step out). (various references)

Russian 

выходить (appear, come out, egress, exit, go out, march out, open on, secede, sign off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabušiti (avoid, shirk), sići (alight, climb down, come down, descend, get down, get off, go down, light, step down), izvući (abstract, bring out, come up, derive, draw out, extract, tug, wangle), izmaći (flee, squirm), izdavati (hand out, rent), izaći (back out, come out, exit, go out). (various references)

Spanish

bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down). (various references)

Swedish

ut (down, forth, from, out, out of, outside, outward), stiga ut, slippa ut, komma upp (come up), få ut (obtain), få upp (bring up, get off, get open, lend, lift, raise, undo), få fram (educe, elicit, pick out, procure, produce). (various references)

Turkish

defol (away with you, be off, begone, drop dead, get out of my sight, go boil your head, hence with it, off, off with you, out, piss off, push off, scram, swing, swing it), çek git (clear out, push off, scram). (various references)

Turkmen 

aяrylmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

геть (avaunt, away, beat it, begone, get, hence, out, out upon you), висаджуватися (land), виходити (alight, appear, come of, come out, egress, exit, go out, log out, proceed, step, step out, walk out). (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"Get Out" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Getout. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: togue.

-2 letters: gout, tote, tout.

-3 letters: ego, get, got, gut, out, teg, tet, toe, tog, tot, tug, tut.

-4 letters: et, go, oe, to, ut.

+2 letters: goutiest, toughest, tutorage, ungotten.

+3 letters: bethought, courgette, groutiest, methought, outeating, rethought, tutorages.

+4 letters: coquetting, courgettes, doughtiest, gluttonies, outglitter, outtelling, rouletting, stoutening, tutoyering, untogether.

+5 letters: autografted, autosuggest, deglutition, degustation, droughtiest, forethought, glutathione, outbleating, outcheating, outdebating, outfeasting, outglitters, outintrigue, outsteering, outtowering, overcutting, overthought, pirouetting, poussetting, rebuttoning, tautologies, teutonizing, thoroughest, thoughtless.