"get one's ass in gear" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-get one's ass in gear.ogg Forms: gets one's ass in gear [present, singular, third-person], getting one's ass in gear [participle, present], got one's ass in gear [past], gotten one's ass in gear [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|get<,,got,gotten> one's ass in gear}} get one's ass in gear (third-person singular simple present gets one's ass in gear, present participle getting one's ass in gear, simple past got one's ass in gear, past participle gotten one's ass in gear)
  1. (US, idiomatic) To exert effective effort; to get going; to get moving; to start producing. Tags: US, idiomatic Synonyms: get one's arse into gear, get one's ass into gear, put one's ass in gear, have one's ass in gear Related terms: find another gear Translations (to exert effective effort): panna liikettä niveliin (Finnish), ruszać dupę [imperfective] (Polish), ruszyć dupę [perfective] (Polish), mexer-se (Portuguese), вка́лывать (vkályvatʹ) [colloquial, imperfective] (Russian), горба́титься (gorbátitʹsja) [colloquial, imperfective] (Russian), въёбывать (vʺjóbyvatʹ) [imperfective, vulgar] (Russian), въя́бывать (vʺjábyvatʹ) [imperfective, vulgar] (Russian), mover el culo (Spanish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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