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Definition of from the get-go

from the get-go

  • from the beginning.
    The project was doomed from the get-go.

    Last edited on Jun 05 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'from':

Definitions include: acronym of "away from keyboard."
Definitions include: Connotes mental, physical, and spiritual bankruptcy.
Definitions include: acronym for "bitch from hell".
Definitions include: something from the past.
Definitions include: acronym for "bastard operator from hell".
Definitions include: a good friend that is more like a brother.
Definitions include: This is an expression that was used in Western Kentucky in the late seventies, possibly earlier.
Definitions include: to become overwhelmed with information.
Definitions include: constipated.
Definitions include: over the entire body.
Definitions include: nightmarish.
Definitions include: run down or impoverished.
Definitions include: to go from extreme poverty to wealth.
Definitions include: from basic ingredients; not pre-prepared.
Definitions include: with sincere emotion.

Other terms relating to 'get':

Definitions include: very; really; extremely.
Definitions include: a phrase of one is about to be in trouble big-time or something bad is about to happen.
Definitions include: "Get ready for some serious trouble."
Definitions include: "buy one get one" free.
Definitions include: don't be mistaken; "believe it".
Definitions include: acronym for "get back to work".
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: to have sex with someone who is not one's significant other.
Definitions include: to acquire a buzz.
Definitions include: to be excited by.
Definitions include: to enjoy.
Definitions include: see clue.
Definitions include: to steal.
Definitions include: to ingest a drug.
Definitions include: start working in a company at a low level, hoping to progress from there.

Other terms relating to 'go':

Definitions include: completely ready.
Definitions include: acronym for "best friends forever who eat out and go shopping a lot".
Definitions include: used to tell someone to stop messing with people.
Definitions include: excited and ready to start.
Definitions include: acronym for "got to go".
Definitions include: acronym of "goes away from keyboard".
Definitions include: "goes in to".
Definitions include: the beginning.
Definitions include: to get a person excited.
Definitions include: to move one's legs.
Definitions include: acronym for "go fuck yourself".
Definitions include: acronym for "go fuck yourself".
Definitions include: acronym of "go fuck yourself."
Definitions include: acronym for "good game."
Definitions include: to say.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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