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gets wrong

gets wrong is the third-person singular simple present indicative of get wrong.

Meaning of get wrong

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.
    • You've got it all wrong: I'm innocent of this crime!
  2. (Norfolk, Northumbria, often) To be told off or reprimanded; to get into trouble.
    • […] she couldn't tell her mother and father, because she would have got wrong off her mother and father […]1976, John Henry Taylor, The Half-Way Generation: A Study of Asian Youths in Newcastle upon Tyne, NFER Publishing Company, page 138

Questions about gets wrong

What is gets wrong the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gets wrong is the third-person singular simple present indicative of get wrong.

Words near gets wrong in the dictionary

  1. gets with child
  2. gets with it
  3. gets with the program
  4. gets with the times
  5. gets work done
  6. gets wrong
  7. Getsemane
  8. getsul
  9. getsuls
  10. gett
  11. gettability

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