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gotten one's head straight

gotten one's head straight is the past participle of get one's head straight.

Meaning of get one's head straight

Verb

get one's head straight (third-person singular simple present gets one's head straight, present participle getting one's head straight, simple past got one's head straight, past participle (UK) got one's head straight or (US) gotten one's head straight)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic, transitive) To clear one's mind; to think clearly.
    • It took me a long time to get my head straight. I met this woman. She was on welfare, had two children, practically illiterate she was; she could barely read the labels on canned food. Lucky they had pictures on most food.1978, George Davis, Love, Black Love, Anchor Books, →ISBN

Questions about gotten one's head straight

What is gotten one's head straight the past participle of?
Gotten one's head straight is the past participle of get one's head straight.

Words near gotten one's head straight in the dictionary

  1. gotten one's hands on
  2. gotten one's head around
  3. gotten one's head out of one's ass
  4. gotten one's head out of the gutter
  5. gotten one's head out one's ass
  6. gotten one's head straight
  7. gotten one's head together
  8. gotten one's hooks into
  9. gotten one's hopes up
  10. gotten one's house in order
  11. gotten one's hump up

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