getting bucket it to shoot hoops or make baskets in basketball
When a group decides they are going out HARD for a night of drinking they are said to be, "getting after it"
Dude, I've made an executive decision. It's been a long week and we ARE getting after it tonight.
When a guy loses to, or finishes behind a girl in a competitive event.
I am sick of getting chicked when running in five-Kilometer foot races.
example: at the end of the new eminem song bully em says get at me dawg challengin the people he disses in it to respond to the song
To get down and dirty with someone
Frank:"I want yo' fine ass"
Hayley: "Oh my no talk about get fresh!"