get busy
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.74 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Stop playing computer games, and get busy with your homework."
- "The couple were getting busy in the front room when the doorbell rang."
- "Homer and Marge have to try to explain things to children who are too worldly to fall for most excuses, the explanation trails off, and what could be a pleasant family outing to solve it all turns out to be yet another excuse for self-involvement when one public humiliation doesn’t outweigh the joys of getting busy in a windmill."
- "Alyx Vance: Did Dr. Kleiner just say to everyone that they should get busy?"
- "Thurl: Are you busy? Alexia: Really? The days pass like decades in here, Thurl. We won't be busy until that worldship decides to talk back to us. Thurl: And yet, you have been… Alexia: Thurl. If you say "getting busy" I will punch you so hard you'll have to spawn child processes just to feel all the pain."