got

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Scrabble points
4
Words With Friends
5
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/ɡɒt/
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/ɡɒt/ · /ɡɔt/ · /ɡɑt/ · /ɡaʔ/ · /ɡʌt/

Definition of got

16 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (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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verb

  1. (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.”
  2. (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!”
  3. (colloquial, no-past-participle, no-present-participle, nonstandard, regional)Have/has.
    “They got a new car.”
    “He got a lot of nerve.”
  4. (form-of, past)simple past of get
    “We got the last bus home.”
  5. (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?”
  6. (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.””
  7. (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!”
  8. (Singlish, auxiliary, invariable)Used as a marker of realis modality.
    “I got go Taiwan next year.”
  9. (Singlish, auxiliary, invariable)Used to emphasize that an action has been done.
    “I got tell them just now.”
  10. (Singlish, auxiliary, invariable)Marks the habitual aspect in the present or past tense.
    “I got cook meals for them.”
    “You got play badminton?”

name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Game of Thrones.
  2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of GoT (“Game of Thrones”).

noun

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Abbreviation of glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Abbreviation of geranyl-pyrophosphate-olivetolic acid geranyltransferase or geranyl-diphosphate:olivetolate geranyltransferase.
  3. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of GoT (“Game of Thrones”).
  4. (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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