Definition of "get" [get]

• To come into possession or use of; receive: got a cat for her birthday. (verb-transitive)
• To meet with or incur: got nothing but trouble for her efforts. (verb-transitive)
• To go after and obtain: got a book at the library; got breakfast in town. (verb-transitive)
• To go after and bring: Get me a pillow. (verb-transitive)
• To purchase; buy: get groceries. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Rather than making it harder to get divorced, which would cause problems for people in abusive situations, why not just make it harder to *get* married?"
• "Even beyond that most people in the province probably know residents who had never shown an interest in jigging a cod before they were told they couldn’t, and those same residents were among the first to decide they simply had to get out and “get their fish."
• "Yes, -- and, to confirm my suspicions, here rattle in the drums and pipe in the fifes, wooing us to get up, _get up_, with music too peremptory to be harmonious."