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Get onto

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To contact a person or organisation about a particular matter.

    "You should get onto the manufacturers and complain."

  2. 2
    understand, usually after some initial difficulty wordnet
  3. 3
    To connect, especially to the Internet or a network.

    "With my new computer, I can get onto the Internet faster."

  4. 4
    To scold someone; to pressure someone; to criticize someone. transitive

    "My father got onto me for taking the car without asking."

  5. 5
    To introduce someone to something. ditransitive, informal

    "My mum got me onto this new diet and I've lost 5 kilos in the past two weeks."

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  1. 6
    To take a look at someone or something. informal

    "Hey, get onto the dog and cat playing together."

  2. 7
    To believe or suspect something; to understand or come to understand something; to realize something. informal, slang, transitive
  3. 8
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, onto.

    "The child will get onto the merry-go-round."

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