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get around
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb get around has 4 senses
- get around(v = verb.communication) break, get out - be released or become known; of news; "News of her death broke in the morning" Sample sentence:
- get around(v = verb.communication) bypass, go around, short-circuit - avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!" is one way to avoid
- get around(v = verb.social) swing - be a social swinger; socialize a lot; Array is one way to socialise, socialize
- get around(v = verb.motion) get about - move around; move from place to place; "How does she get around without a car?" is one way to go, locomote, move, travel
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Somebody ----s somebody
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THESAURUS
get around
bamboozle, become public, beg, beguile, betray, blarney, bluff, break, butter, butter up, buzz about, cajole, cheat on, circulate, circumvent, come forth, come out, conjure, deceive, delude, diddle, ditch, double, double-cross, dupe, elude, escape, evade, find vent, fly about, foil, forestall, frustrate, gammon, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get away from, get exposure, get out of, get round, give the runaround, give the slip, go about, go forth, go one better, go the rounds, gull, have been around, have currency, have savvy, hoax, hocus-pocus, honey, hornswaggle, humbug, issue, jolly, juggle, kid along, know the ropes, know the score, lay it on, let down, mock, oil, outfigure, outflank, outgeneral, outguess, outmaneuver, outplay, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overdo it, overreach, pass the buck, pigeon, play one false, play up to, put something over, see the light, shake, shake off, shuffle out of, skirt, snow, soap, soft-soap, soften up, spread, spread about, spread like wildfire, stonewall, string along, stroke, take in, trick, two-time, victimize
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