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get outside

get outside verb: to consume (eat or drink).

Verb

get outside (third-person singular simple present gets outside, present participle getting outside, simple past got outside, past participle (UK) got outside or (US) gotten outside)

  1. (informal, transitive) To consume (eat or drink).
    • All this troop had come from the Palais de Justice; and when it reached the Buci Cross-roads, you dismounted, because you were thirsty, and wished before the ceremony to get outside a pint at the tavern kept by the Smacker.1912, Edgar Jepson, The Man with the Black Feather (translation of Gaston Leroux), Small, Maynard, page 306 http://google.com/books?id=C18tAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA306&dq=outside
    • The sunset swayed before my eyes as if it were doing the shimmy, and a bird close by which was getting outside its evening worm looked for an instant like two birds, both flickering.1954, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 10, in Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Scribner, published 2000, →ISBN, pages 97–98
  2. (intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, outside.
    • I need to get outside. I've been cooped up for days.

Forms of get outside

third-person singular presentgets outside
present participlegetting outside
pastgot outside
past participle UKgot outside
past participle USgotten outside

Questions about get outside

What does get outside mean?
Get outside means to consume (eat or drink).
What part of speech is get outside?
Get outside is a verb.
What is the past tense of get outside?
The past tense of get outside is got outside.

Words near get outside in the dictionary

  1. get out of someone's hair
  2. get out of town
  3. get out the vote
  4. get out what one puts in
  5. get out while the getting's good
  6. get outside
  7. get outside of
  8. get outta here
  9. get over
  10. get over on
  11. get over oneself

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