4get

English

Verb

4get (third-person singular simple present 4gets, present participle 4getting, simple past 4got, past participle 4gotten)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Forget.
   • 1994, James M. Deem, 3 NBs of Julian Drew, Graphia, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 11:

     My brain could never 4get that time. My brain could never 4get that time was 4bidden.

   • 2000, Todd Strasser, Give a Boy a Gun, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, published 2020, →ISBN, page 58:

     Once U’re dead, U’re gone and 4gotten. But it’ll be a long time before they 4get about Littleton.

   • 2004, Paul Howard, PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids, The O’Brien Press, published 2012, →ISBN:

     Was in Orphas room 2nite readin her diary again. 4got sum of it from b4.

   • 2004, Lynda Sandoval, Who’s Your Daddy?, Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, published 2008, page 198:

     4GET about Bobby, and I mean it. (Please, GOD, 4get about Bobby.)

   • 2009, Tara Chace, transl., Are U 4 Real?, Dial Books, translation of original by Sara Kadefors, →ISBN:

     sometmz i want to b drunk a lot, since when ur drunk u feel good and 4get about everything and all the crap disappears. although i don’t want to 2 4get about u.

   • 2009, Peter Lerangis, wtf, Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 50:

     ru on yr way? its late! u said 8:30. / * Sent 8:43 p.m. 10/17 / o shit i 4got sorrrrryyyyy / * cam h Received 8:49 p.m. 10/17 / what do u mean, 4got??????? we were sposed to hang tonite!

   • 2010, Ryan Brown, Play Dead, Gallery Books, pages 150–151:

     weekend of torture? not easy to 4get. […] don’t 4get the hose-down.

   • 2008, Alyson Noël, Cruel Summer, St. Martin’s Griffin, pages 5 and 29:

     Plz say bye 2 Levi 4 me N plz give him my email cuz I 4got 2 […] Oh yah—almost 4got 2 tell U I’m starting a blog so u guyz can c my pics & stuff! So stop by & ck it out & don’t 4get 2 tell Levi!

   • 2011, Gombe Papers on Nigerian Literature, volume 1, number 2, →ISSN, page 248:

     I cud 4get a face, 4get a place, 4get a name, 4get a game. I cud even forget myself, but 4getting u, 4get it.!!

   • 2011, Lauren Kaelin, Sophia Fraioli, When Parents Text: So Much Said...So Little Understood, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 153:

     dad: THE NECTARINES ARE READY dont 4get. dad / dad: I left a note on the kitchen table next to the bag of NECTARINES so u wouldnt 4get.

   • 2007, Cecily von Ziegesar, The Gossip Girl Prequel: It Had To Be You, Headline Publishing Group, published 2012, →ISBN:

     what if we get nate ready 4 ball. get him rlly drunk. u kiss him. he 4gets 2 go 2 ball?

   • 2012, Jessica Burkhart, Masquerade, Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 159–160:

     Did u srsly think I’d 4get being tagged? […] I *did* 4get abt that tag. […] I’ll 4give u & 4get all abt the msg. […] Meant 2 add I’ll 4get abt it on ONE condition.

   • 2013, Terra Elan McVoy, Criminal, Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 44:

     NIKKI: I 4got we went 2 the movies / NIKKI: Rmembr?

   • 2013, Elissa Brent Weissman, The Short Seller, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 61:

     i 4got u weren’t there last week.

   • 2015, Bill Sommer, Natalie Haney Tilghman, A 52-Hertz Whale, Carolrhoda Lab, →ISBN, page 93:

     U didn’t miss anything b/c 4got bout PT appt.

   • 2019, Brett Wirebaugh, Half-Tail Rising, Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 130:

     we have bin hangin out so much i 4got to check / i will check mor often