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Definition of got
16 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(no-past-participle, no-present-participle)Expressing obligation; used with have.
“I can’t go out tonight: I’ve got to study for my exams.”
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(no-past-participle, no-present-participle)Expressing obligation; used with have.
“I can’t go out tonight: I’ve got to study for my exams.”
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(colloquial, no-past-participle, no-present-participle)Must; have/has (to).
“I got to go study.”
“We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!”
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(colloquial, no-past-participle, no-present-participle, nonstandard, regional)Have/has.
“They got a new car.”
“He got a lot of nerve.”
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(form-of, past)simple past of get
“We got the last bus home.”
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(form-of, participle, past)past participle of get
“By that time we’d got very cold.”
“I’ve got two children.”
“How many children have you got?”
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(Manglish, Singlish, invariable)Have; there is (indicates possession or existence).
“Got problem is it?”
“Got ants over here.”
““Got lighter or not?””
“She sure got a lot of costume change, make-up, wig long long…”
““There is no such thing as president of the world. But there is one king of the world. I am king of the world. Bigger than you!” “Where got king, one? Who say so? You play cheat.” “My mother say got. You don’t believe me you ask her.””
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(Singlish, auxiliary, invariable)Marks the completive or experiential aspect.
“You got shower?”
“I got ski.”
“I got ski before.”
“You got send [e-mail] meh? I never receive leh.”
“I got find it a bit weird lah, to be honest with you—it’s just a small cup!”
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(Singlish, auxiliary, invariable)Used as a marker of realis modality.
“I got go Taiwan next year.”
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(Singlish, auxiliary, invariable)Used to emphasize that an action has been done.
“I got tell them just now.”
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(Singlish, auxiliary, invariable)Marks the habitual aspect in the present or past tense.
“I got cook meals for them.”
“You got play badminton?”
name
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Game of Thrones.
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of GoT (“Game of Thrones”).
noun
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Abbreviation of glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Abbreviation of geranyl-pyrophosphate-olivetolic acid geranyltransferase or geranyl-diphosphate:olivetolate geranyltransferase.
- (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of GoT (“Game of Thrones”).
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of global offset table.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Analogous to Chinese 有, such as Hokkien 有 (ū), Cantonese 有 (jau⁵), Mandarin 有 (yǒu). Sense 1 is also comparable to Malay ada.
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