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gattas

gattas is the plural of gatta.

Meaning of gatta

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

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Proper noun capitalized: Gattas

Gattas

  1. (plural) plural of Gatta

Questions about gattas

What is gattas the plural of?
Gattas is the plural of gatta.
What part of speech is gattas?
Gattas is a proper noun.

Words near gattas in the dictionary

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

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