get busy
get busy verb: to cease to be idle and start working.
Verb
get busy (third-person singular simple present gets busy, present participle getting busy, simple past got busy, past participle (UK) got busy or (US) gotten busy)
- To cease to be idle and start working.
- Stop playing computer games, and get busy with your homework.
- To have sex.
- The couple were getting busy in the front room when the doorbell rang.
- Homer and Marge have to try to explain things to children who are too worldly to fall for most excuses, the explanation trails off, and what could be a pleasant family outing to solve it all turns out to be yet another excuse for self-involvement when one public humiliation doesn’t outweigh the...2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club
- Synonyms:
- get freaky, get it on, get laid
Synonyms of get busy
Forms of get busy
| third-person singular present | gets busy |
|---|---|
| present participle | getting busy |
| past | got busy |
| past participle UK | got busy |
| past participle US | gotten busy |
Questions about get busy
- What does get busy mean?
- Get busy means to cease to be idle and start working.
- What part of speech is get busy?
- Get busy is a verb.
- What is the past tense of get busy?
- The past tense of get busy is got busy.
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