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gittin' along

gittin' along is the present participle of git along.

Meaning of git along

Interjection

  1. (US, often, cowboy slang) Move; keep going.
    • Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,
      It's your misfortune, and none of my own.
      Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,
      For you know Wyoming will be your new home.1910, John Avery Lomax, Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads, page 87
  2. (US, slang) Go on your way; scram.

Questions about gittin' along

What is gittin' along the present participle of?
Gittin' along is the present participle of git along.

Words near gittin' along in the dictionary

  1. gitterns
  2. Gitters
  3. gitties
  4. gittim
  5. gittin
  6. gittin' along
  7. gitting
  8. Gittins
  9. Gittins index
  10. Gittins indexes
  11. gittinsite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gittin' along (page history and authors); git along (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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