Word.ws English Dictionary

get one's hand in

get one's hand in verb: to make a beginning in a certain work; to become accustomed to a particular business.

Verb

get one's hand in (third-person singular simple present gets one's hand in, present participle getting one's hand in, simple past got one's hand in, past participle (UK) got one's hand in or (US) gotten one's hand in)

  1. To make a beginning in a certain work; to become accustomed to a particular business.

Forms of get one's hand in

third-person singular presentgets one's hand in
present participlegetting one's hand in
pastgot one's hand in
past participle UKgot one's hand in
past participle USgotten one's hand in

Questions about get one's hand in

What does get one's hand in mean?
Get one's hand in means to make a beginning in a certain work; to become accustomed to a particular business.
What part of speech is get one's hand in?
Get one's hand in is a verb.
What is the past tense of get one's hand in?
The past tense of get one's hand in is got one's hand in.

Words near get one's hand in in the dictionary

  1. get one's fingers onto
  2. get one's foot in the door
  3. get one's freak on
  4. get one's fuck on
  5. get one's groove on
  6. get one's hand in
  7. get one's hands dirty
  8. get one's hands on
  9. get one's head around
  10. get one's head out of one's ass
  11. get one's head out of the gutter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: get one's hand in (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “get one's hand in.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/get_one%27s_hand_in. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.