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Re: From the git-go

Posted by R. Berg on April 25, 2001

In Reply to: From the git go posted by Bob Skuggen on April 24, 2001

: Can anyone tell me where "from the git go" came from?

It isn't in my dictionaries. I've seen "git-go" and "get-go," and I'm guessing that "from the git-go" means "from the beginning" because the beginning of a process is when somebody gits going.