Definition of "getter" []

• A material added in small amounts during a chemical or metallurgical process to absorb impurities. (noun)

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• "State election officials say they won't even count names on write-in ballots unless they make up the most votes in the race or the difference in their number and the highest voter getter is less than half a percent."
• "The "Dancing with the Stars" results show kicks things off Tuesday with the surprise announcement that Teen Abstinence Advocate Bristol Palin, the previous night's lowest vote-getter, is safe ... despite fluffing a good chunk of her jive dance number -- part of which was performed in a gorilla costume -- the night before, and after which, when asked what she'd been thinking, she answered, "Uh, I hate the jive," followed by an awkward silence."
• "Despite his legal situation and upcoming trial weighing on him and his diminished statistics, Bryant was the second-leading vote-getter from the West."