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got

/ɡɒt/

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British/ɡɔt/

got verb: expressing obligation; used with have. Also the simple past of get.

Verb (1)

got (third-person singular simple present got or (nonstandard) gots, no present participle, simple past (by suppletion) had, no past participle)

  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!1971, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, in Tapestry, Ode Records
  3. (colloquial, no-past-participle, no-present-participle, nonstandard, regional) Have/has.
    • They got a new car.
    • He got a lot of nerve.

Verb (2)

got (invariable)

  1. (Manglish, Singlish, invariable) Have; there is (indicates the possession or existence of something).
    • You got problem is it?
    • Got ants over here.
  2. (Singlish, auxiliary, invariable) Marks the completive or experiential aspect.
    • You got shower?
    • I got ski.
    Synonyms:
    ever
  3. (Singlish, auxiliary, invariable) Used as a marker of realis modality.
    • I got go Taiwan next year.
  4. (Singlish, auxiliary, invariable) Used to emphasize that an action has been done.
    • I got tell them just now.
  5. (Singlish, auxiliary, invariable) Marks the habitual aspect in the present or past tense.
    • I got cook meals for them.
    • You got play badminton?

Noun capitalized: GOT

GOT (countable and uncountable, plural GOTs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of geranyl-pyrophosphate-olivetolic acid geranyltransferase or geranyl-diphosphate:olivetolate geranyltransferase.
  3. (alternative) Alternative form of GoT (“Game of Thrones”).
    Synonyms:
    AST, AspAT, ASAT, AAT
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of global offset table.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: GOT

GOT

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of GoT (“Game of Thrones”).

Proper noun (2) capitalized: GoT

GoT

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Game of Thrones.

Also used as

got is also the simple past of get.

got is also the past participle of get.

got is also the simple past of git.

got meaning in Thai

got in Thai

colloquial have/has
ได้ dâai

Examples of got in a sentence

  • She sure got a lot of costume change, make-up, wig long long…2010, Haresh Sharma, Those Who Can't, Teach, Epigram Books, Act II, scene iv:
  • I got find it a bit weird lah, to be honest with you—it’s just a small cup!2021, Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier, Epigram Books, →ISBN:

All 40 example sentences with got

Synonyms of got

Forms of got

Verb
third-person singular presentgot
past suppletivehad
third-person singular present (nonstandard)gots
Noun
pluralGOTs
Proper noun
alternative formGOT
alternative formGot

Past tense of got: had

Origin of got

Analogous to Chinese 有, such as Hokkien 有 (ū), Cantonese 有 (jau⁵), Mandarin 有 (yǒu). Sense 1 is also comparable to Malay ada.

Words formed from got

Phrases with got

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Words that rhyme with got

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about got

What does got mean?
Got means expressing obligation; used with have.
What is got in Thai?
Got in Thai is ได้ (dâai). See Got meaning in Thai.
How do you use got in a sentence?
She sure got a lot of costume change, make-up, wig long long…
What part of speech is got?
Got can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce got?
Got is pronounced /ɡɒt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of got?
The past tense of got is had.

Words near got in the dictionary

  1. Goswami
  2. Goswamis
  3. Goswell
  4. Goswick
  5. Goswicks
  6. got
  7. got 'er done
  8. got a charge out of
  9. got a clue
  10. got a fix
  11. got a grip

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: got (page history and authors); GOT (page history and authors); GoT (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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