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getting life

getting life is the present participle and gerund of get life.

Meaning of get life

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To receive a life sentence.

Questions about getting life

What is getting life the present participle and gerund of?
Getting life is the present participle and gerund of get life.

Words near getting life in the dictionary

  1. getting it together
  2. getting it twisted
  3. getting it up
  4. getting laid
  5. getting late
  6. getting life
  7. getting lost
  8. getting lucky
  9. getting Mario Karted
  10. getting married
  11. getting medieval

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Adapted from Wiktionary: getting life (page history and authors); get life (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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