get behind
         v 1: to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we
               still are dragging" [syn: {drag}, {trail}, {get behind},
               {hang back}, {drop behind}, {drop back}]

English Dictionary: get-up-and-go	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
get even v compensate; make the score equal [syn: equalize, equalise, get even] take revenge or even out a score; "I cannot accept the defeat --I want to get even" Synonym(s): get even, get back
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
get weaving v start to be active; "Get cracking, please!" [syn: {get cracking}, bestir oneself, get going, get moving, get weaving, get started, get rolling]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
get-up-and-go n enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy" Synonym(s): energy, push, get-up-and-go
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gate \Gate\ (g[amac]t), n. [OE. [yogh]et, [yogh]eat, giat, gate,       door, AS. geat, gat, gate, door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat       opening, hole, and perh. to E. gate a way, gait, and get, v.       Cf. {Gate} a way, 3d {Get}.]       1. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an             inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.;             also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by             which the passage can be closed.          2. An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or             barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens             a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance             or of exit.                         Knowest thou the way to Dover? Both stile and gate,                      horse way and footpath.                     --Shak.                         Opening a gate for a long war.            --Knolles.          3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage             of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.          4. (Script.) The places which command the entrances or             access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.                         The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.                                                                               --Matt. xvi.                                                                               18.          5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt             to pass through or into.          6. (Founding)             (a) The channel or opening through which metal is poured                   into the mold; the ingate.             (b) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue                   or sullage piece. [Written also {geat} and {git}.]          {Gate chamber}, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock,             which receives the opened gate.          {Gate channel}. See {Gate}, 5.          {Gate hook}, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge.          {Gate money}, entrance money for admission to an inclosure.                      {Gate tender}, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad             crossing.          {Gate valva}, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate             which affords a straight passageway when open.          {Gate vein} (Anat.), the portal vein.          {To break gates} (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure             after the hour to which a student has been restricted.          {To stand in the} {gate, [or] gates}, to occupy places or             advantage, power, or defense.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Get-penny \Get"-pen`ny\, n.       Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair.       [Colloq.] --Chapman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Gutta \[d8]Gut"ta\, n.; pl. {Gutt[92]}. [L.]       1. A drop.          2. (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a             frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the             triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in             the Doric order; -- called also {campana}, and {drop}.          {Gutta serena} [L., lit. serene or clear drop] (Med.),             amaurosis.          {Gutt[91] band}> (Arch.), the listel or band from which the             gutt[91] hang.