get behind

verb

got behind; got behind or gotten behind; getting behind; gets behind

1

: to fail to do something as quickly as required or expected

We've been getting further (and further) behind (schedule).

We got behind with our car payments.

2

: to support (someone or something)

The proposal may succeed if a few more people get behind it.

Examples of get behind in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

However, getting behind the wheel of this fancy flagship will cost you a pretty penny—160,000 pennies, to be exact. — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026

There is a ravenousness in midtown right now, after a frustrating few years, for Broadway to get behind some great new musical. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2026

Evers got behind Crowley in an effort to blunt the rising campaign of democratic socialist Francesca Hong. — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026

Then, in 2007, the world got behind a UN Security Council resolution sanctioning Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons. — S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2026

Rhymes for get behind

• countersigned
• disinclined
• humankind
• interlined
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• mastermind
• misaligned
• nonaligned
• predefined
• realigned
• reassigned
• recombined