go-getter

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noun eager beaver

adjective. desiring success

adjective. active, vital

noun. industrious person

adjective. active, vital

adjective. effective, powerful, forceful

noun. person who makes things happen

1910, American English, from go + agent noun from get (v.). Goer, with essentially the same meaning, is attested from late 14c.

I'm sending you there, Harrison, because your record indicates that you're a go-getter.

The next man we send out to that Shanghai office is going to be a go-getter.

Applehead, I may here explain, was an ex-sheriff, and what range men call a "go-getter."

If it was anybody else I'd say it was crazy, but you're such a doggoned hellion of a go-getter mebbe you can put it over.

That would put him right up in the go-getter class, which is the class I want to see Kay marry into.