get around
(Redirected from get 'round)
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editget around (third-person singular simple present gets around, present participle getting around, simple past got around, past participle (UK) got around or (US) gotten around)
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- The tide was too high, and we couldn't get around the rocks.
- There's no trail going through. We can't get around to the lake.
- We'll get a good view of the mountains when we get around the bend.
- (figuratively) To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- Tax consultants look for ways to get around the law.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
- How did you get around having to write the executive report?
- My brother always gets around cleaning his room himself.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- How's he gonna get around without a car?
- Granny uses a wheelchair to get around.
- 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
- The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: "It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars."
- To visit numerous different places.
- 1964, Brian Wilson and Mike Love, I Get Around (Beach Boys song).
- I'm gettin' bugged driving up and down the same old strip
I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip
My buddies and me are getting real well known
Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone
I get around (get around round round I get around)
From town to town (get around round round I get around)
- I'm gettin' bugged driving up and down the same old strip
- 1964, Brian Wilson and Mike Love, I Get Around (Beach Boys song).
- (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
- Wow, she really gets around.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
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