Meanings
interjection
- humorousidiomaticinformalsometimesUsed to instruct a couple to stop displaying romantic or physical affection in public.
One night he kissed me on a park bench. I knew we shouldn’t but he would be gone so soon. The next night a homeless guy on a bench nearby hollered at us to get a room, but we couldn’t as we both had fierce landladies.
2021 December 26, Alys Fowler, “My winter of love: I was homesick in New York. The quiet Danish poet was just what I was longing for”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2022
Origin
Suggesting that the couple rent a hotel or motel room to continue amorous activities in private.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish menkää pussauskoppiin, hankkikaa huone
- menkää pussauskoppiinused to instruct a couple to stop displaying physical affection in public
- hankkikaa huoneused to instruct a couple to stop displaying physical affection in public
German nehmt euch ein Zimmer
- nehmt euch ein Zimmerused to instruct a couple to stop displaying physical affection in public
Hungarian menjetek szobára
- menjetek szobáraused to instruct a couple to stop displaying physical affection in public
Cite this entry
APA
get a room. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20a%20room
MLA
“get a room.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20a%20room. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “get a room,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20a%20room.
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