Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large spotted shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum of the West Indies.

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Examples

  • As with Bakademy, which we found out about the other day, it is a bilingual portmanteau word created by combining the Japanese word gata, or tidal mudflats, with Olympics.

    M. Skipper, Plaintiff » Japundit Blog 2005

  • I have never heard a maid called a gata, but of course, my husband and his family have never had a maid.

    2 questions pour favore ;o) 2003

  • I have never heard a maid called a gata, but of course, my husband and his family have never had a maid.

    2 questions pour favore ;o) 2003

  • I have never heard a maid called a gata, but of course, my husband and his family have never had a maid.

    2 questions pour favore ;o) 2003

  • I have never heard a maid called a gata, but of course, my husband and his family have never had a maid.

    2 questions pour favore ;o) 2003

  • I have never heard a maid called a gata, but of course, my husband and his family have never had a maid.

    2 questions pour favore ;o) 2003

  • I have never heard a maid called a gata, but of course, my husband and his family have never had a maid.

    2 questions pour favore ;o) 2003

  • I have never heard a maid called a gata, but of course, my husband and his family have never had a maid.

    2 questions pour favore ;o) 2003

  • I have never heard a maid called a gata, but of course, my husband and his family have never had a maid.

    2 questions pour favore ;o) 2003

  • I have never heard a maid called a gata, but of course, my husband and his family have never had a maid.

    2 questions pour favore ;o) 2003

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  • It's a fish.

    November 16, 2011

  • Okay, okay.

    *ahem*

    Is it a catfish?

    November 16, 2011

  • {: > )

    November 16, 2011