Verb

get ready (third-person singular simple present gets ready, present participle getting ready, simple past got ready, past participle (UK) got ready or (US) gotten ready)Category:English lemmas#GETREADYCategory:English verbs#GETREADYCategory:English multiword terms#GETREADYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GETREADYCategory:Pages with entries#GET%20READYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#GET%20READY

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#GETREADY) To prepare; to make ready or prepared.

   I'll get the tripod ready, and you find the camera.Category:English terms with usage examples#GETREADY

2. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#GETREADY) To prepare; to make oneself prepared.

   Synonym: gear up

   Get ready for the most thrilling experience of your life!Category:English terms with usage examples#GETREADY

Noun

get ready (plural get readies)Category:English lemmas#GETREADYCategory:English nouns#GETREADYCategory:English countable nouns#GETREADYCategory:English multiword terms#GETREADYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GETREADYCategory:Pages with entries#GET%20READYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#GET%20READY

1. Alternative form of get-ready.
   • 1955, “DOMI-MENTAL—Harry Bernard”, in The Linking Ring, volume 35, Bluffton, Oh.: International Brotherhood of Magicians, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

     No set-ups, get readies or moves to learn.

     Category:English terms with quotations#GETREADY

   • 1999 August 23, Cardican, “D.L's.”, in alt.magic‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 1 April 2026:

     That "push off" is very nice. However, I read an item where Darwin Ortiz uses a "Pinky Count" as the get ready. Better, do you think?

     Category:English terms with quotations#GETREADY

   • 2003 July 13, J.D. Campbell, “Ananda Insults America on July 4th”, in alt.yoga‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 1 April 2026:

     You know i just dont think you could be too mean too long your insults actually are get readies and truthfully i have a large smile at how little you know FULL MOON FAST MATING...

     Category:English terms with quotations#GETREADY

   • 2011 December 27, Ken Jacuzzi with Diane Holloway, “This Is Your Life, Ken Jacuzzi!”, in Jacuzzi: A Father’s Invention to Ease a Son’s Pain, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, part III (Learning, Marriage, and Stuff), page 385:

     Near bedtime, about 10 p.m. or so, I sit on the pot. My “routine” is at night so as to shorten the morning get readies and start work on time. Sometimes the p.m. pot routine is successful, sometimes not. I can only blame myself, of course, when the big event doesn’t occur. I need to drink more water during the day.

     Category:English terms with quotations#GETREADY

References

• “get ready”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.