"sit on it" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-sit on it.ogg [Australia] Forms: sits on it [present, singular, third-person], sitting on it [participle, present], sat on it [participle, past], sat on it [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|sit<,,sat> on it|head=sit on it}} sit on it (third-person singular simple present sits on it, present participle sitting on it, simple past and past participle sat on it)
  1. (slang) shove it up your ass (up yours) or back off. Tags: slang Translations (shove it up your ass): se le mettre bien profond (French), s’enfiler ça (French)
    Sense id: en-sit_on_it-en-verb-oVCZXX8J Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (on), English terms with placeholder "it" Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (on): 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms with placeholder "it": 65 35 Disambiguation of 'shove it up your ass': 99 1
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sit on, sit, on, it.
    Sense id: en-sit_on_it-en-verb-LnAGYu6I

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for sit on it meaning in English (2.2kB)

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