get busy

present singular third person gets busy · participle present getting busy · past got busy · UK participle past got busy · US participle past gotten busy

1. informalTo cease to be idle and start working.

   Stop playing computer games, and get busy with your homework.

2. idiomaticslangTo have sex.

   The couple were getting busy in the front room when the doorbell rang.

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   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.

   2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 16 May 2017

   Alyx Vance: Did Dr. Kleiner just say to everyone that they should get busy?

   2007, Half Life 2 Episode Two

   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.

   2019 August 22, “Book 20: Sergeant In Motion — Part I”, in Schlock Mercenary

   Synonyms: get freaky, get it on, get laid