AKACroatalin's definitions
This is an American expression which can be used in a number of ways:
1 To obtain an item, by purchase, borrowing or other means;
2 To initiate contact or communicate with a person or persons or an organisation;
3 To understand or appreciate an idea, concept or theory;
The British use the expression get hold of in a similar way.
1 To obtain an item, by purchase, borrowing or other means;
2 To initiate contact or communicate with a person or persons or an organisation;
3 To understand or appreciate an idea, concept or theory;
The British use the expression get hold of in a similar way.
1 “Can you get ahold of any 2 inch 10 brass screws?”
2 “That cunt Malcolm’s gone off somewhere, I can’t get ahold of him.”
3 “His ideas are so abstruse they’re difficult to get ahold of.”
2 “That cunt Malcolm’s gone off somewhere, I can’t get ahold of him.”
3 “His ideas are so abstruse they’re difficult to get ahold of.”
by AKACroatalin November 29, 2016
Get the Get Ahold Ofmug. by AKACroatalin August 8, 2015
Get the Maybellinemug. Old Cornish slang for the dreadful pins and needles feeling you get in your fingers in cold weather, typically if you’ve been playing in the snow making a snowman.
by AKACroatalin December 30, 2016
Get the Gwendersmug. Gowk (pronounced ɡaʊk) is a noun with a number of meanings. It is sometimes used to mean a cuckoo or an awkward, clumsy or stupid person. Apparently the word goes back to ancient German and could mean a bastard, simpleton, or fool, which gives its commonest usage namely an awkward or foolish person. There is also a third totally distinct meaning; in Geordie dialect it means an apple core.
by AKACroatalin January 3, 2017
Get the Gowkmug. British Army slang acronym from around the time of World War 2 and stands for balls, bum and armpits. This referred to the areas washed when time is of the essence or water in short supply. It is somewhat similar to an airplane bath but less thorough than HF-AGBA. It was extremely common during the 1950s when National Service in the armed forces was compulsory in Britain for males between the ages of 17 and 21.
by AKACroatalin March 14, 2019
Get the BBAmug. It’s an informal adverb principally meaning in concealment or out of sight. It is usually used in the phrase lie doggo meaning to hide and keep quiet, but can also be used on its own to mean “keep quiet about something” or “don’t tell anyone”.
That’s illegal here, keep it doggo.
by AKACroatalin October 23, 2016
Get the Doggomug. Invariably is an adverb which means each time or upon every occasion. If you see a particular person that you loathe and despise coming towards you and you always get that sinking feeling in your stomach, then that is invariably what happens. You know that every time you see them they’ll have that shit-eating grin on their face that each time you see it makes you feel sick, then that is invariably what happens as well. You know too, because it happens every time that, without even saying “Hello”, they’ll start dishing the dirt on somebody because that is what invariably happens. I thought a few examples might help to clarify things, but I’m not invariably right.
by AKACroatalin May 14, 2015
Get the Invariablymug.