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from the get

from the get is the alternative form of from the get-go.

Meaning of from the get-go

Prepositional phrase

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) From the very beginning; from the outset; immediately upon starting.
    • I watched him closely from the get-go because I did not trust him.
    Synonyms:
    the word go, off the bat § Synonyms

Questions about from the get

What is from the get the alternative form of?
From the get is the alternative form of from the get-go.

Words near from the get in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: from the get (page history and authors); from the get-go (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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