Definition of get (one's) goat
get (one's) goat
verb
- to make a person angry.
He really gets my goat.
- See more words with the same meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out.
Last edited on Jan 05 2013. Submitted by Tom D. from Orlando, FL, USA on Mar 13 2005.
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- "Get (one's) goat" began as American prison slang, which in turn came from an off-color joke. The joke: Men stranded on a desert island find a herd of goats. Being starved for love, they have sex with the female goats. This goes on day after day until one day a fight breaks out between two men. When asked to explain, one man points at the other and shouts angrily, "He's got my goat!" That's how the expression began.
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Other terms relating to 'to become angry, go crazy, freak out': | |
| Definitions include: to react with extreme emotion; "freak out". | |
| Definitions include: freak out or go crazy. | |
| Definitions include: to perpetrate acts of premeditated violence. | |
| Definitions include: shortened form of freaking. | |
| Definitions include: to go crazy; "go postal". | |
| Definitions include: to be extremely angry. | |
| Definitions include: to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.) | |
| Definitions include: to lose one's temper. | |
| Definitions include: to be extremely angry. | |
| Definitions include: to go crazy. | |
| Definitions include: to take LSD. | |
| Definitions include: "epileptic fit". | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: to go crazy. | |
| Definitions include: a person who is strange or different. | |
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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: "buy one get one" free. | |
| Definitions include: don't be mistaken; "believe it". | |
| Definitions include: From the beginning. | |
| 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 'goat': | |
| Definitions include: A western type person who may or may not be an actual cowboy. | |
| Definitions include: a rural US saying that means a person's bottom-wear (such as dress or slacks) have gotten caught in their "butt crack". | |
| Definitions include: An adverse reference, as for a job or promotion; any unsubstantiated comment designed to sabotage its subject's goals in a job, social circle, or personal relationship. | |
| Definitions include: Something excellent. | |
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