(UK, Australia, NZ) Get busy with; become occupied with; become immersed in.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK) To start eating.
: After pulling our boat up the beach there wasn’t much to do but collapse onto the sand and get stuck into some serious drinking.
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(Australia) To criticise someone; tell off; to get angry at; to attack.
But although some timber for the house was eventually delivered, he never got around to the building stage. ‘I′ll hire some help and we'll get stuck into it,’ he would say, but the only thing he ever got stuck into was his vodka.
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