get one's hands on

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get one's hands on

verb gets one's hands on · getting one's hands on · got one's hands on · gotten one's hands on

  1. informal, transitive To get; to obtain; to secure. If you can get your hands on the right ingredients, it's an easy recipe.
  2. To catch. Now Lloyd wanted badly to get his hands on him.

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