getting going

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To leave, to depart, to get moving.
   • It is quite late, I'd best get going before sunset.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To begin or commence.
   • We'd better get this project going. If we don't get going on it soon, we won't finish in time.
3. (transitive) To excite intellectually.
   • She got him going with all these stories, and then she'd leave him, and he'd be up all night trying to figure out the end.1986, Forum
4. (transitive) To arouse sexually.
   • During the preliminaries I, as usual, "got her going" by irritation of the clitoris, among other things.1948, Journal of Clinical Psychology: Monograph Supplement
5. (intransitive) To talk passionately without interruption.
   • Once she got going about my wages and everything else she had to pay out. She couldn't keep the wolf from the door, she said.1987, Klaus Burghardt, Great Commonwealth Stories, Ernst Klett Sprachen, →ISBN, page 29
6. (transitive) To cause someone to talk passionately without interruption.
   • I got him going about the moon or stars, he would fall into that trap, he forgot about his questions and for hours talked to me about the universe.1999, Irena Vrkljan, Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester, Celia Hawkesworth, The Silk, the Shears and Marina; Or, About Biography, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 47

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