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getcha

contraction
/ˈɡɪt͡ʃə/

Etymology

Written form of a reduction of get you. get + -cha

  1. derived from *gʰed-✻ — “to find; to hold; to seize; to take”
  2. derived from *getaną✻ — “to find; to acquire, attain, get, hold, receive”
  3. derived from geta
  4. inherited from geten
  5. suffixed as getcha — “get + cha”

Definitions

  1. Contraction of get you.

    • Look out, or Daddy's gonna getcha!
    • We all go through that. Don't let it getcha down.

  2. Understand

    Understand; comprehend.

    • Yeah, I getcha, smarty pants.

  3. Contraction of get + your.

    • Getcha butt over here!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for getcha. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA