git along

Get moving, cowboy-style

Git along is a dialectal or informal rendering of "get along," used especially in American Southern and Western speech.

It means to leave or move on: Git along now, I've got work to do.

The phrase git along, little dogies from cowboy songs urges cattle forward.

Git along also carries the standard sense of getting along—managing or coexisting: We git along just fine.

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agree · make peace · advance · collaborate · work together · progress · get a move on · travel · giddyap · reconcile · chuckwagon · dogie · mosey · hit the trail · compromise · march · coordinate · go

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Opposites
movement/departure

git alongstay put

Remain in place

stay · remain · stop · halt · stand still

pace/urgency

git alongwhoa

Command to stop

stop · halt · slow down · hold on · ease up

social progress/cooperation

git alongfight

Physical or verbal conflict

quarrel · clash · feud · bicker · squabble

Family

git, along, getting, gotten

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Mostly American · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G