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gets out of someone's face

gets out of someone's face is the third-person singular simple present indicative of get out of someone's face.

Meaning of get out of someone's face

Verb

get out of someone's face (third-person singular simple present gets out of someone's face, present participle getting out of someone's face, simple past got out of someone's face, past participle (UK) got out of someone's face or (US) gotten out of someone's face)

  1. (colloquial, imperative, often) To stop aggressively bothering someone; to step down from confrontation with someone.
    • Man, get outta my face with that shit! The motherfucker who said that never had to pick up itty-bitty pieces of skull with his fingers on account of your dumb ass.1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson)

Questions about gets out of someone's face

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Gets out of someone's face is the third-person singular simple present indicative of get out of someone's face.

Words near gets out of someone's face in the dictionary

  1. gets out of
  2. gets out of bed on the wrong side
  3. gets out of Dodge
  4. gets out of here
  5. gets out of someone's ear
  6. gets out of someone's face
  7. gets out of someone's hair
  8. gets out the vote
  9. gets out what one puts in
  10. gets out while the getting's good
  11. gets outside of

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