get ready

English

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)

(transitive) To prepare; to make ready or prepared.
I'll get the tripod ready, and you find the camera.
(intransitive) To prepare; to make oneself prepared.
Synonym: gear up

Get ready for the most thrilling experience of your life!

Derived terms

get-ready

Translations

to make ready or prepare

Cherokee: ᎠᏛᏅᎢᏍᏗᎭ (advnvisdiha)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Esperanto: prepari, pretigi
Estonian: valmistuma
Finnish: valmistella (fi), laittaa valmiiksi
French: rendre disponible, disponibiliser (fr), préparer (fr), se préparer (fr)
German: bereit machen, fertig machen, klar machen, vorbereiten (de)
Indonesian: bersiap-siap (id)
Khmer: ត្រៀម (km) (triəm)
Latin: parō (la)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Malagasy: manomana (mg)
Malay: bersiap sedia
Occitan: se preparar, preparar (oc)
Polish: szykować się impf, naszykować się pf, przygotowywać się impf, przygotować się pf
Quechua: wakichikuy
Spanish: arreglar (es), preparar (es), acondicionar (es), disponer (es), alistar (es)
Thai: เตรียมพร้อม (dtriiam-prɔ́ɔm)
Vietnamese: chuẩn bị (vi)

Noun

get ready (plural get readies)

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.
- 1999 August 23, Cardican, “D.L's.”, in alt.magic‎^[1] (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?
- 2003 July 13, J.D. Campbell, “Ananda Insults America on July 4th”, in alt.yoga‎^[2] (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...
- 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.

References

“get ready”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.