Definition of "get back"

get back

verb
third-person singular simple present gets back, present participle getting back, simple past got back, past participle (UK) got back or (US) gotten back
1. (intransitive) Return to where one came from.
  Quotations
  He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
  The night air may have sobered him a bit by the time they got back to Beattock.
  1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53
2. (transitive) To retrieve, to have an item returned.
3. (transitive) To do something to hurt or harm someone who has hurt or harmed one; to take revenge.

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