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get happy

get happy verb: in Black or Pentecostal churches, to undergo the experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit, associated with ecstatic singing, dancing, and general spiritual fervor.

Verb

get happy

  1. In Black or Pentecostal churches, to undergo the experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit, associated with ecstatic singing, dancing, and general spiritual fervor.

Questions about get happy

What does get happy mean?
Get happy means in Black or Pentecostal churches, to undergo the experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit, associated with ecstatic singing, dancing, and general spiritual fervor.
What part of speech is get happy?
Get happy is a verb.

Words near get happy in the dictionary

  1. get glad in the same pants one got mad in
  2. get going
  3. get got
  4. get gray hair from
  5. get grey hair from
  6. get happy
  7. get high
  8. get hitched
  9. get hold of
  10. get home
  11. get home bag

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