A getter is a method that gets the value of a specific property.    From Wordnik.com.  [eWeek - RSS Feeds] Reference

A getter is a function with a return value depending on what we return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

Luke Gladue knows the name is an attention-getter, which is why it's what he calls his newly launched business.    From Wordnik.com.  [timesunion.com: Local Breaking News] Reference

And this week's lowest vote getter is.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Situation' bids 'Dancing With the Stars' a classy farewell as he's eliminated] Reference

When a "getter" method is called on a field of type "obj" and the object is a wrapper, the value is "unwrapped" and returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [AutoHotkey Community] Reference

And this story is an attention getter for parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2007] Reference

TEN "" sent at one time, and one to Club getter 16.00.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference

TWAIN: He's a go-getter, and so am I, but I'm a girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2005] Reference

But the biggest attention-getter may come by accident.    From Wordnik.com.  [HUFFINGTON'S POST: NOT YET TOAST] Reference

KAYE (voice-over): But it sure is an attention-getter.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2009] Reference

It sounds like you have a really go-getter bride here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2002] Reference

TWENTY "" sent at one time, and one to Club getter 30.00.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference

Being anti-American was a vote-getter in all three places.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arrogant Empire] Reference

That's Tony and that's the go-getter attitude that he has.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2007] Reference

A guaranteed applause getter, and lo, he gets the applause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair interviewed by Katie Couric - live] Reference

WASTLER: Am I a young go-getter, like right in the midst.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2002] Reference

Many handicappers had expected Jackie to be the top vote-getter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Grimm Wins 'America's Got Talent'] Reference

I have converted my mountain bike into kind of a grocery-getter.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2006] Reference

COOPER: Which, I have got to say, was a huge applause-getter.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2007] Reference

So far, the euro has been at best a weak vote getter at the polls.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Euro, One State] Reference

Ben Wallace is a money-getter and would win success in any business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

We've seen this over and over but it's an attention getter, you know?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Film, Fame & Fashion 2000: Hollywood Celebrates Oscar Night - March 26, 2000] Reference

And you would be an attention getter if you weren't Dolly Parton (ph).    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 20, 2001] Reference

Actually, you know who the real, blooming "it-getter" on the GOP side is?.    From Wordnik.com.  [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference

Then, at no time to his death was he a sure foal getter, even to a few mares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887] Reference

Hans Riemer was the second-highest vote-getter in the race for an At Large seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lori's A.M. Buzz: D.C. vote, 48 hours later] Reference

MATTINGLY: Doran was the leading vote getter four years ago with just 903 votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2008] Reference

It was rare, which meant the getter must have gotten it in the most squalid of ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Writer’s Brush With Fate] Reference

Bidding the turpentine-getter a rather reluctant "good-by," I rode on into the rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference

So she will proceed to a runoff against the next-highest vote getter, Gresham Barrett.    From Wordnik.com.  [Female Candidates Shine In Arkansas, Calif., S.C.] Reference

Another attention-getter is a fan-beam, like a lighthouse's, sweeping across the galaxy.    From Wordnik.com.  [ET, PHONE US] Reference

But Gingrich has joined Palin as a star fund-raiser, publicity-getter and heat-generator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Sigman: The Newtiness of Newt] Reference

I know you don ` t getter lower than that, because they ` d catch me and I wouldn ` t care.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2006] Reference

THE PRESIDENT: Well, Mr. Secretary, I have associated with me the champion membership getter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922] Reference

"Getting out a daily column is no picnic," confesses a daily getter-out in the Niles Sun-Star.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Toasts] Reference

Now if you're more of a go-getter type, like Andersen here, all stocks, baby, you go for that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2002] Reference

ACOSTA (on camera): While he is a headache for Democrats, Ralph Nader is not a proven vote getter.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2008] Reference

Mitt RomneyProThe former Massachusetts governor, a proven vote-getter in a liberal state, looks and sounds presidential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Can Win in November?] Reference