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from the gecko

from the gecko prepositional phrase: eggcorn of from the get-go.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Eggcorn of from the get-go.

Questions about from the gecko

What does from the gecko mean?
From the gecko means eggcorn of from the get-go.
What part of speech is from the gecko?
From the gecko is a prepositional phrase.

Words near from the gecko in the dictionary

  1. from the dead
  2. from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious
  3. from the East German judge
  4. from the face of the earth
  5. from the first
  6. from the gecko
  7. from the get
  8. from the get-go
  9. from the getgo
  10. from the git
  11. from the git-go

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