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Not in COCA, which allows searches for punctuation. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to verify this? Is it in widespread use somewhere? Is it actually " 'get you " as in "forget you". DCDuring TALK 02:57, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I have not heard it in the sense of "forget you!", but only as "look at you!", "get a load of you!" It means "well, aren’t you just the best!" —Stephen 05:27, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Totally agree - this is fine. (Try a Google book search for the phrase "Ooh get you" (to weed out all the other combinations of the words). SemperBlotto 07:14, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Is this UK? It does remind me of (deprecated template usage) get a load of. DCDuring TALK 11:42, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, I have one illustrative quote. If that captures it and it is in widespread use in the UK, we could declare victory. Is there use that is significantly different from the quote?

More importantly, isn't this just yet an colloquial imperative/hortative/precative? Could I not say "get her". Are all common colloquial imperatives entitled to their entry? DCDuring TALK 12:12, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, you could say "get her". Remember the song If My Friends Could See Me Now? "Brother, get her! Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur!" Equinox ◑ 19:35, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

I think this has passed as an RfV. There is the CFI/RfV issue. Should this be a redirect to get#Verb or to a specific link point at the exact sense? Or should we bow to the inevitable and include this and all attestable exclamations as interjections? We have a large number of such terms that contributors seem to think merit an entry. Maybe we should take the persistence of these as a warrant for rationally including at least some of them.

"Get her" would be expected to have less justification as an interjection as it concerns a third party. What would be the emotion? Envy? It certainly has less of a role in conversational direction or as a kind of linguistic politeness. DCDuring TALK 14:10, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

RFV passed per DCDuring. —Ruakh_TALK 18:44, 4 November 2009 (UTC)