Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pistol.
- noun A narrow passage extending inland from a shore; a channel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An old preterit of
get . - noun An obsolete form of
goat . - noun An opening or passage in a sand-bank; a way from the cliffs to the sea.
- noun Nautical, a channel among shoals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete imp. of
get .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic, slang, in old westerns A
Gatling gun . - noun slang, 1920's gangster Any type of
gun ; usually in reference to apistol . - verb slang To
shoot someone with a pistol or otherhandheld firearm . - noun New Zealand, slang A
guitar - verb Scottish and Northern English Simple past of
get .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gangster's pistol
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Colin says, nevertheless, that the Chiefs used the title gat or lakan, and the women dayang.
History of the Philippine Islands Antonio de Morga 1597
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I'm still laughin gat what someone wrote here, my favorite line .. ". .if you put her brain in a bird, it would fly backwards."
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Now it chanced that in the marketplace his eye lit on a certain fine boy whom he knew could not be of the country, & asking him his name gat for answer that he was called Olaf and his father Tryggvi Olafson and his mother Astrid, the daughter of Eirik Biodaskalli.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) 1179-1241 Snorri Sturluson 1210
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Since John is from the Snake Plissken School Of Indifference he passes unless he can bring his gat, that is.
Archive 2007-12-01 Dart Adams 2007
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Since John is from the Snake Plissken School Of Indifference he passes unless he can bring his gat, that is.
Dart Adams presents A Tale Of Ten Trailers AKA I Have Entirely Too Much Free Time On My Hands Dart Adams 2007
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No wailing word gat Gudrun, no thought she had to weep
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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The only reason a black man would be arrested in your example is if he/she brought the 'gat' they are surley 'packin' into work the final day they were there.
Tim Kring apologizes for calling fans 'dips***s' -- The Live Feed | THR 2008
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I am thankful I have access to such terms as 'gat' and 'packin' due to the impeccibly vocal inner city youth made up of mostly african americans.
Tim Kring apologizes for calling fans 'dips***s' -- The Live Feed | THR 2008
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Coicou insisted he never heard anyone say they were going to get a "gat," or a gun.
Tonya Plank: What Does It Take To Convict Police in The Shooting of an Unarmed Black Man? 2008
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Moreover, before steam made coast traffic independent of wind, the sand-banks outside the roads were a great source of profit to the beach men, who went off in their long yawls to such craft as "missed stays" coming through a "gat," or managed to run aground on one of the sand-banks in some way or other.
Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" James Blyth
oroboros commented on the word gat
Tag in reverse.
November 3, 2007
asativum commented on the word gat
Also an archaic past form of go or get, apparently:
"So Thorir gat him west to Dublin, and enquiring there for tidings of Oli learned that he was with his brother-in-law King Olaf Kvaran. Thereafter Thorir brought it to pass that he gat speech of Oli, and when they had talked often and long (for Thorir was a very smooth-tongued man) fell Oli to asking about the Upland kings: which of them were still alive and what dominions pertained to them."
-- Sturluson, Snorri: The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyrant
(Note: I think the link leads to the same translation I'm quoting from, but I could be wrong.)
September 30, 2008
yarb commented on the word gat
Archaic past tense of get, i.e. equivalent of got. I'm surprised an 1895 translation would use it; probably the translator is aiming for an antiquated feel.
Makes me think of the Morte D'Arthur, e.g. "How gat ye this sword? said Sir Ector to Arthur." (I. v.)
Still exists in begat, which you sometimes see as past of beget. In this sense I guess the King James Genesis gave it extra momentum with its famous "Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech..." etc.
September 30, 2008
asativum commented on the word gat
Thanks -- I was hoping someone smart would fill in my assumption! Much appreciated.
October 1, 2008