English

Alternative forms

• geddid

Contraction

geddit

1. Eye dialect spelling of get it. (As in, "do you understand the humour?")

   Ya gotta keep yer eye on the ball, son. Eye. Ball. Eyeball. Geddit?

   • 2005, Patrick Bond, Fanons Warning: a civil society reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development, p. 79:

     The current political joke is that 'Mbeki shot himself in the kneepad' (Nepad geddit?) over Zimbabwe.

Usage notes

• Usually used interrogatively, and often in pair, "Geddit? Geddit?"