Entry · catalog no. 6212
from the git-go
/ /frəm ðə ˈɡɪt ɡoʊ/ /from-thuh-GIT-goh
phrase · nationwide · 1960s
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1.
From the very beginning; from the jump.
“I told you from the git-go this wasn''t gonna work.”
Origin & Attribution
Black American vernacular, built on git going. It surfaces in print in the Baltimore Afro-American by 1960 and in Toni Cade Bambara''s fiction by 1966. The mainstream respelling get-go is a later cleanup of the original git.
1960
Appears in the Baltimore Afro-American
1966
Used in Toni Cade Bambara''s fiction
1990s
Get-go spelling common in mainstream English
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide / diaspora
nationwide · 1960s
Spoken by
nationwide
$FROMTHThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Steady66 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
65/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
1960
in the culture
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Atlanta, GA
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Memphis, TN
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Citations & Sources
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Baltimore Afro-American — newspaper · 1960
print
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+ Cite a sourceToni Cade Bambara — fiction · 1966
print
See also