get up
v.— «Got up with…To meet with rendevous.» —“On the day&hellip’1:V:1, Guide to MS-Delta Slang: Intro to Definitions” by RebelHata Jack of All Trades; Master of None (Greenville Miss.) Oct. 12, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
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