1Traditional Japanese wooden footwear, held on with a thong called hanao; often worn with a yukata at summer festivals.
花火大会には浴衣と下駄で出かけた。
I went to the fireworks festival wearing a yukata and geta.
下駄で歩くとカラコロと音がして楽しい。
Walking in geta makes a fun clip-clop sound.
慣れないと下駄で走るのは難しい。
It's hard to run in geta if you're not used to them.
2A printing-industry term for the placeholder mark 〓 (resembling geta teeth), inserted temporarily where a needed piece of movable type is missing.
校正段階では見つからない活字の代わりに下駄（〓）を仮に入れておく。
During proofreading, a geta mark (〓) is temporarily inserted in place of type that can't be found.
3A go (board game) term for a tactic that traps an opponent's stones so they cannot escape; usually written as ゲタ.
白はゲタにかかって、あの石はもう助からない。
White has been caught in a net (geta), and that stone can no longer be saved.