get back
— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
A2 to return to a place after you have been somewhere else:
If you get back in time, you can come with us.
When we got back to the hotel, Ann had already left.
More examples
- We didn't get back from the cinema until midnight.
- We got back from holiday to discover that we had been burgled.
- Malcolm gets back from work in half an hour.
- Give me a call when you get back.
- When I finally got back, I found my car had been clamped.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Returning to a place
- backtrack
- call
- call back
- come
- come back
- double
- double back
- go
- go back
- not darken sb's door idiom
- re-enter
- regain
- rejoin
- resume
- retrace
- retrace your steps idiom
- return
- snap
- turn
- turn (sb) back
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