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gots

gots verb: has, has got (3rd person singular).

Verb

gots

  1. (nonstandard) Has, has got (3rd person singular).
    • Every time I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho / Tryna make a sister feel low / You know all of that gots to go1993, Dana Owens, Kier Gist, “U.N.I.T.Y.” (track 12), in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah
  2. (dialectal, nonstandard) Have, have got (1st person singular).
    • "See, I gots bad hair, the kind of hair you have to wet in the morning 'fore you can comb it," he explains.1988 April 8, Grant Pick, “Johnny Washington's Life”, in Chicago Reader
    • What the track? I gots to know!2010, David Listenbee, Stefan Gordy, Skyler Gordy, Peter Schroeder, “Party Rock Anthem” (track 3), in Sorry for Party Rocking, performed by LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett and GoonRock

Noun capitalized: GOTs

GOTs

  1. (plural) plural of GOT

Origin of gots

From a reanalysis of got (colloquial form of have got) as a present tense verb.

Questions about gots

What does gots mean?
Gots means has, has got (3rd person singular).
What part of speech is gots?
Gots can be a verb or a noun.

Words near gots in the dictionary

  1. gotong-royongs
  2. gotos
  3. gotra
  4. gotras
  5. gotrocks
  6. gots
  7. Gotschall
  8. Gotschalls
  9. gotsta
  10. Gott
  11. Gott in Himmel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gots (page history and authors); GOTs (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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