git

noun
/ɡɪt/US

Etymology

Likely chosen for its shortness and pronounceability, but various other explanations and backronyms were offered after its introduction.

  1. inherited from get

Definitions

  1. A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man).

    • Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette / And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git
    • Bit of a flash git, don't you think?
  2. Pronunciation spelling of get.

  3. shoo! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting)

    2. Alternative letter-case form of Git, a distributed VCS.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for git. 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