to get high
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- phrasal verb
- /ɡɛt haɪ/
- NSFW
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colocarse
- I'm gonna go get high.
- want to get high
I want to get high on a Sunday morning.
- I want to get high on a Sunday morning.
- Like, where can me and Quasi get high and just be?
- It seems like I get high, I get low, so I get high again.
- Yes, we got high off cava and kratom.
- You know, when you get high, do it with some people that you know.
- But also, right, getting high has become like a negative thing.
- Yeah, like you, like you almost get high when you get drunk.
- When you wanted to get high, was there anything that could stop you?
- You just have to want God, right and stop getting high in psychedelics.
- We trying to smoke, dude Mark trying to get high, bro Mark hasn't showered since December.
- Say they smoke, They they going to get high or get by.
- That's why we wore NASA suits and we got high as fuck.
Examples
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I want to get high on a Sunday morning.
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After a long week, they decided to get high and relax during the weekend.
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Or do you want to get high on your own supply?
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No, I stopped getting high when I was a kid.
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It's time to get high with my family.
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Can you believe they got high?
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But these are just additional side benefits to getting high because I like to be high.
Blog text (8) -
People are always going to want to get high.
Fiction book (1992) -
OK, who would you rather get high with, Mika or Joe?
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Yes, we got high off cava and kratom.
Synonyms
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9.5
To see things that are not real after taking drugs
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9.9
To become high from using drugs
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9.8
To take drugs so you feel high
3
9.8
Feel strange and see or hear things after taking drugs
To see or hear things that are not real, often because of drugs
Antonyms
How Intoxicated
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5.4
- NSFW
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9.5
- NSFW
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8.8
- NSFW
8
9.8
- NSFW
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9.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the composition 'get' (to obtain/become) + 'high' (a euphoric/intoxicated state): the common English pattern 'get + adjective/noun-state' signals becoming that state. Cross-linguistically this change-of-state construction is frequent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would most likely infer the drug- or alcohol-related meaning.
Etymology
The phrase get high paints a simple picture of going up: the parts get and high make you think of being lifted above the ground, because drugs or alcohol can make a person feel light or strange. So get high means 'to feel very happy or different because of drugs or alcohol'.