get hold of

phrase

variants or chiefly US get a hold of

1

: to get possession of (something) : to succeed in getting (something)

Somehow she managed to get hold of the band's new album before it came out.

Where did you get hold of that idea?

2

: to find and talk to (someone) : to contact (someone)

I need to talk to my lawyer, but I haven't been able to get hold of him.

I've been trying to get a hold of my lawyer for days.

Examples of get hold of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The goal is to encrypt a message so that someone who gets hold of it cannot split it into two usable versions that both reveal the message once the decrypting key is known. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 31 July 2026

An officer looked in a window and saw blood on the floor but was unable to get hold of Gregory Dolnics. — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 29 July 2026

As such, scammers are making the most of the hype surrounding the film itself, and the desire amongst those users to get hold of a free copy as quickly as possible. — Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Yamamoto then let Gabriel Arias get hold of a curveball for a 407-foot home run to straightaway center field. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for get hold of

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove
• hereinabove