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gatta

gatta noun: a police officer.

Noun

gatta (plural gattas)

  1. (South Africa, slang) A police officer.
    • They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, Zebra Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 167

Proper noun capitalized: Gatta

Gatta (plural Gattas)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Forms of gatta

Noun
pluralgattas
Proper noun
pluralGattas

Origin of gatta

Borrowed from Italian Gatta.

Questions about gatta

What does gatta mean?
Gatta means a police officer.
What part of speech is gatta?
Gatta can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of gatta?
The plural of gatta is gattas.

Words near gatta in the dictionary

  1. gatsbys
  2. Gatso
  3. Gatson
  4. Gatsons
  5. GATT
  6. gatta
  7. Gattaran
  8. gattas
  9. gatted
  10. Gatten
  11. gatten tree

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