get on someone's grill

verb

To enter someone's personal space in an aggressive or hostile manner.

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get up in someone's grill
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Meanings

verbget on someone's grill (third-person singular simple present gets on someone's grill, present participle getting on someone's grill, simple past got on someone's grill, past participle gotten on someone's grill or got on someone's grill)

present singular third person gets on someone's grill · participle present getting on someone's grill · past got on someone's grill · participle past gotten on someone's grill · participle past got on someone's grill

  1. idiomaticinformalTo enter someone's personal space in an aggressive or hostile manner.

    Raise my flag, can't step on my heel Crime means cops that'll get on my grill If I don't bust in the ends, who, what Blud, if I don't bust in the ends, who will?

    2021, Jaykae, “Chop (Henry the 8th)”

    Synonyms: get up in someone's grill

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo enter someone's personal space in an aggressive or hostile manner.

Similar
get up in someone's grill

Origin

See grill (“the teeth”), i.e. the area of someone's face.

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