get outside

verb

To consume (eat or drink).

“I need to get outside. I've been cooped up for days.”

Meanings

verbget outside (third-person singular simple present gets outside, present participle getting outside, simple past got outside, past participle (UK) got outside or (US) gotten outside)

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

  1. informaltransitiveTo consume (eat or drink).

    The sunset swayed before my eyes as if it were doing the shimmy, and a bird close by which was getting outside its evening worm looked for an instant like two birds, both flickering.

    1954, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 10, in Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Scribner, published 2000, →ISBN, pages 97–98
    1 more example

    All this troop had come from the Palais de Justice; and when it reached the Buci Cross-roads, you dismounted, because you were thirsty, and wished before the ceremony to get outside a pint at the tavern kept by the Smacker.

    1912, Edgar Jepson, The Man with the Black Feather (translation of Gaston Leroux), Small, Maynard, page 306 http://google.com/books?id=C18tAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA306&dq=outside
  2. intransitiveUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, outside.

    I need to get outside. I've been cooped up for days.

Synonyms & antonyms

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APA

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MLA

“get outside.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20outside. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “get outside,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20outside.

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