Meanings
present singular third person gets one's shit together · participle present getting one's shit together · past got one's shit together · UK participle past got one's shit together · US participle past gotten one's shit together
- idiomaticslangvulgarTo organize oneself in order to be able to deal with or achieve something; to mature.
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2024 May 10, Hannah Oh, Daisy Maldonado, “50 College Graduation Gifts That Say, “I’m So Effing Proud of You!””, in CosmopolitanSynonyms: get one's act together, get one's crap together, get one's poop together
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo organize oneself in order to be able to deal with or achieve something; to mature.
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get one's shit together. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20one's%20shit%20together
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