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...got ahold of...
Typically -- a southern euphemism:
....(1) made contact (with a subject) in person, by CB radio, or netlink phone
....(2) caught said subject by the back of the belt and scruff of the neck /T-shirt inpreparation for "th'owin' their sorry @$$ outta here"...
Y'all cheeseheads & badgers have good 'un...
(...wishing everyone in Wisconsin a wonderful Sunday!)
Some people pronounce it “aholt.”
Another midwesternism, of which I heard a lot (alot?) while growing up, is “lookit.”
I assume it’s a midwesternism, because I have never heard a non-midwesterner use it. Enlighten me if you’ve heard it used by people from other regions.
Many years later, it jumped right out at me when I first heard Rush use it.
“got ahold of” is a phrase long in common, everyday usage in this manner in Wisconsin, and in the part of Minnesota in which I also resided.