get about

verb

got about; got about or gotten about; getting about; gets about

intransitive verb

1

: to become current : circulate

2

: to be up and about : begin to walk

able to get about again

Synonyms of get about

• spread
• circulate
• get out
• get around
• come out

Examples of get about in a Sentence

it got about that the company was having financial difficulties

Recent Examples on the Web

Columnist Gustavo Arellano explains what Steve Hilton doesn’t get about Xavier Becerra’s parents. — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Booking’s roughly 9,000 engineers are getting about 30% more code into production, counting only merge requests that pass testing and quality control. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

The two were the top finishers in the three-candidate August primary, with Peña getting about 47% and Moore about 29% of the vote. — Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026

The rest of the islands were forecast to get about 1 to 3 inches with 6 inches at most and could see isolated flooding. — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1740, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for get about

• roundabout
• runabout
• sauerkraut
• thereabout
• turnabout
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout