get ready

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

1. transitiveTo prepare; to make ready or prepared.

   I'll get the tripod ready, and you find the camera.

2. intransitiveTo prepare; to make oneself prepared.

   Get ready for the most thrilling experience of your life!

   Synonyms: gear up

plural get readies

1. alternativeAlternative form of get-ready.

   No set-ups, get readies or moves to learn.

   1955, “DOMI-MENTAL—Harry Bernard”, in The Linking Ring, volume 35, Bluffton, Oh.: International Brotherhood of Magicians, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10

   3 more examples

   That "push off" is very nice. However, I read an item where Darwin Ortiz uses a "Pinky Count" as the get ready. Better, do you think?

   1999 August 23, Cardican, “D.L's.”, in alt.magic (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Apr 2026

   You know i just dont think you could be too mean too long your insults actually are get readies and truthfully i have a large smile at how little you know FULL MOON FAST MATING...

   2003 July 13, J.D. Campbell, “Ananda Insults America on July 4th”, in alt.yoga (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Apr 2026

   Near bedtime, about 10 p.m. or so, I sit on the pot. My “routine” is at night so as to shorten the morning get readies and start work on time. Sometimes the p.m. pot routine is successful, sometimes not. I can only blame myself, of course, when the big event doesn’t occur. I need to drink more water during the day.

   2011 December 27, Ken Jacuzzi with Diane Holloway, “This Is Your Life, Ken Jacuzzi!”, in Jacuzzi: A Father’s Invention to Ease a Son’s Pain, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, part III (Learning, Marriage, and Stuff), page 385