give it to someone

present singular third person gives it to someone · participle present giving it to someone · past gave it to someone · participle past given it to someone

1. colloquialTo beat up, shoot, rob, murder, hit or provoke someone.
2. colloquialTo put up a good fight against someone.
3. colloquialTo punish, criticize or verbally abuse someone.

   Synonyms: chastise, give what for, amerce, castigate, chasten, chastise, come down on, correct

4. colloquialTo have sexual relations with someone; to allow someone to have sex with oneself.

   Someone else was kissing her old boyfriend Darren, some other girl wearing his class ring and letting him give it to her in one of Erasmus's abandoned stairwells.

   2015, Naomi A. Jackson, The Star Side of Bird Hill, page 278

5. colloquialTo give someone credit; to praise someone.

   I really have to give it to you. You did a great job!

   Synonyms: hand it to someone