gets

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of get.

   He gets up at dawn to feed the horses.

   Each new employee gets a security badge on the first day.

   Note

   The form that agrees with he, she, it or a singular noun; every other present-tense subject takes bare get. It carries the verb's whole range with it. It can take one object (she gets a letter) or two (he gets her a coffee), and it can link a subject to an adjective the way be does (it gets dark early). It can also mean making something happen (he gets dinner ready).

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of get. Rare; breeders usually use get for all of an animal's young.

   Note

   One spelling, several unrelated plurals. Besides a sire's offspring, gets can be the difficult returns a player digs out of a rally, someone's gains in casual talk, or, in regional speech of the UK and Ireland, contemptible people, the same insult as gits. The offspring meaning is dated in everyday English, so a breeder's context is what lets it read naturally.

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