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gat
/ɡæt/
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What does gat mean?
noun
- Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
- (slang) A guitar.
verb
- (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
More meanings (7)
noun
- An inshore channel or strait dividing two landmasses (such as two islands or sandbanks, or an island and a peninsula, etc) or connecting coastal waters with the open sea, especially on the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas.
- A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen.
- Alternative spelling of khat.
- (slang) Guinness (type of beer).
- (slang) Alternative form of gat (“Guinness beer”).
- (archaic, slang) A Gatling gun.
verb
- (archaic) Simple past of get.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɡæt/
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Then she let him go, but followed him still with her eyes as he gat him into the saddle.
And with these words and others, he lightly took his spear and gat him thence.
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And Abraham had another son Ishmael that he gat upon Hagar his chamberer.
Return them, we are ready; and our daughter, In honour of whose birth these triumphs are, Sits here, like beauty’s child, whom Nature gat For men to see, and seeing wonder at.
Here is boffete, a box on the ear, which is derived from bofeton; vantane, window (later on vanterne), which comes from vantana; gat, cat, which comes from gato; acite, oil, which comes from aceyte.