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gta

gta is the abbreviation of gotta.

Meaning of gotta

Verb

gotta (third-person singular simple present gotta, no present participle, simple past had to, no past participle)

  1. (colloquial, no-past-participle, no-present-participle) Synonym of have got to, have to
    • I gotta learn this for my exam.
    Synonyms:
    have got to, have to

Proper noun capitalized: GTA

GTA

  1. (Canada, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Greater Toronto Area, the most populous urban region in Southern Ontario, Canada.
  2. (Japan, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Greater Tokyo Area.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Grand Theft Auto, a series of video games by Rockstar Games involving car theft and gang warfare.
    • GTA 6, the next chapter of the action-adventure franchise, has been a long time coming. GTA 5 was released in 2013. […] Rockstar Games, owned by Take-Two Interactive, has struggled with leaks. In 2022, hackers leaked unreleased footage from its next iteration of GTA.2023 December 4, Ramishah Maruf, “GTA 6 leak: ‘Grand Theft Auto’ trailer reveals game’s release date”, in CNN

Noun capitalized: GTA

GTA (plural GTAs)

  1. Any game in the Grand Theft Auto series.
    • I remember that car was in one of the classic GTAs.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of graduate teaching associate.

Forms of gta

pluralGTAs

Words formed from gta

Questions about gta

What does gta mean?
Gta means any game in the Grand Theft Auto series.
What is gta the abbreviation of?
Gta is the abbreviation of gotta.
What part of speech is gta?
Gta can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near gta in the dictionary

  1. GSW
  2. GSWs
  3. gt
  4. gt.
  5. Gt. Brit.
  6. gta
  7. GTAer
  8. GTAers
  9. GTalk
  10. GTAs
  11. GTAW

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gta (page history and authors); GTA (page history and authors); gotta (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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