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get the bird

get the bird verb: to be hissed, booed, jeered or otherwise derided at a public performance.

Verb

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

  1. To be hissed, booed, jeered or otherwise derided at a public performance

Forms of get the bird

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

Questions about get the bird

What does get the bird mean?
Get the bird means to be hissed, booed, jeered or otherwise derided at a public performance.
What part of speech is get the bird?
Get the bird is a verb.
What is the past tense of get the bird?
The past tense of get the bird is got the bird.

Words near get the bird in the dictionary

  1. get taken in
  2. get the ball rolling
  3. get the band back together
  4. get the best of
  5. get the better of
  6. get the bird
  7. get the boot
  8. get the bulge on
  9. get the bullet
  10. get the chop
  11. get the dirty water off one's chest

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