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What does get hold of mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word get hold of? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To obtain.
  2. (transitive) To pick up or grab.
  3. (transitive) To contact (a person).
  4. (transitive) To control or stabilize (oneself).
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One fireman seemed to get hold of him then he seemed to slip from his grasp.
Brave Jack managed to get hold of her arms and, in spite of once losing his grip, pull her to safety.
You'd better hope so, because now if he falls we have no way of controlling what whackos get hold of his nukes.
Don's unique selling proposition was that he managed to get hold of the question papers well before the exams were held.
The filmer had this janky camera with one of those clip-on fish eyes and was impossible to get hold of.
Anyhoo, what I'm trying to get across is that this mag is harder to get hold of than a jellied eel.

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