get home

English

Verb

get home (third-person singular simple present gets home, present participle getting home, simple past and past participle got home)

1. To reach one's abode or residence.

   Just you wait till your father gets home.

   • 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30:

     And a Salisbury Cathedral chorister complained that after working late into Christmas Day, an absence of trains meant he and his brother would not be able to get home for "our proper Christmas" until the 27th.

Related terms

• go home

References

• “get home”, in Collins English Dictionary.