Definition of Get a life

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get a life!
standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. often heard on usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. this exhortation was popularised by william shatner on a "saturday night live" episode in a speech that ended "get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. it was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.

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change your lifestyle, get it together, get with it He never goes out - just stays at home and watches TV. I wish he would get a life!

change your lifestyle, get it together 

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He never goes out - just stays at home and watches TV. I wish he would get a life!

exhortation to someone to become worthwhile, to start living an interesting and fulfilling life; catch-phrase expressing derision at another person's life, view of life, point of view, etc.

imp. Hacker-standard way of suggesting that the person to whom it is directed has succumbed to terminal geekdom (see computer geek). Often heard on Usenet, esp. as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularized by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a life!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.

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