GOT

Definition: GOT

GOT

1. Imp. & p. p. of Get. See Get.

Imperative

1. Of Get

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GOT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

GOT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Discovery

Interjection: eureka! aha! I've got it!

Crosswords: GOT

Albanian (goth), Catalan (glass), Indonesian (drain, gutter), Romanian (goth), Serbo-Croatian (goth), Swedish (goth), Turkish (goth).

You got authorization from Aunt Jenny (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

You the poor kid that never got to go to Exeter or Andover (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Got a minute (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

I bet he hasn't even got a wife (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

Sorry, kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Ooh and I've got a feeling (Got A Hold On Me; performing artist: Christine McVie; writing credit: Christine McVie and Todd Sharp)

I got my mind set on you (Got My Mind Set On You; performing artist: George Harrison)

So good, so good, 'cause I got you ("I Got You (I Feel Good)"; performing artist: James Brown)

You've got a friend (You've Got A Friend; performing artist: James Taylor)

But baby I'm so glad that I've Got You (I've Got You; performing artist: Marc Anthony)

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. (references; author: Bob Hope)

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Saw It... Wanted It... Had A Fit... Got It! (references; author: unknown)

The greatest actions of love often got unnoticed. (references; author: unknown)

What a dog I got. His favorite bone is in my arm! (references; author: unknown)

We've Got a Problem Houston (1974)

Got It Made (1974)

I've Got a Secret (1972)

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat (1971)

YOU'VE GOT YOUR TROUBLES  (performing artist: Fortunes )

Ain't No Woman (Like the One I Got) (performing artist: Four Tops)

Got My Eyes Set On You (performing artist: George Harrison)

I've Got to Use My Imagination (performing artist: Gladys Knight & The Pips)

Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daugher (performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

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Books

• How the Cadillac Got Its Fins: And Other True Tales from the Annals of Business and Marketing (reference)

• How the Reindeer Got Their Antlers (reference)

• First We Quit Our Jobs: How One Work Driven Couple Got on the Road to a New Life (reference)

• I Got You, Babe (reference)

• I'Ve Got You, Babe (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Peggy Sue Got Married (reference)

• You've Got Mail (reference)

• Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• I Got Beat (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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In 1930, Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana, convinced that fundamental research could lead to cures for diseases, got his Ransdell Act through Congress. This Act reorganized and expanded the Hygienic Laboratory and renamed it the National Institute of Health. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

"Jack" the mascot of the GEDNEY There is no record of how he got along with Billy the Bear. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Base camp for Mount Elbert observations The party got a reprieve as there was more funding to finish some Colorado work Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Got a big one this time! Fishing off the Newport Beach pier. Credit: Fisheries.

It's not a nutty idea-pecans are good for you! They've not only got protein, potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium; but even calcium! Okay, so they contain fat too, but 95 percent of it is unsaturated. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

The "big one" got away!. Credit: Unknown.

Have You Got ASTHMA? : Did You Get It Through Work?. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Would you be more careful if it was you that got pregnant?. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Artwork entitled "The Ram as she appeared in passing the 'Harriet Lane' after the 'Mississippi' had got through with her". It depicts the Manassas during the action off Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi River, 24 April 1862. Credit: NAVY.

They caught him : Hughey's only got a year. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

People are not so easily got out of their old forms, as some are apt to suggest. (Second Treatise of Government)

We cannot take from them what they have not got. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He went to town on business three days ago, and I got him to take charge of some papers which I was wanting to send to John

Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together

An icicle must have got into the works

He wasn't certain whether he had just got space-sickness or religion

He got up.

Some weeks Jack Lawton got the card for first and some weeks he got the card for first

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Humbly complaining to her deity Got my Lord Chamberlain his liberty

The bank owned the land then, but we stayed and we got a little bit of what we raised

I put my cows and sheep into my coat pockets, and got on board with all my little cargo of provisions

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Health

The word "rabies" comes from a Latin word that means "to rage." Rabies got its name because animals with rabies sometimes act as if they are angry. (references)

While I was waiting for the immune globulin (one of the shots) lots of people came in and asked "are you the boy who got bit?" "Yes," I would answer. (references)

The syndrome got its name from a Dutch eye doctor named Petrus Johannes Waardenburg who first noticed that people with differently colored eyes often had a hearing impairment. (references)

Business

Some Russians, especially inhabitants of large cities have got access to private insurance programs. (references)

In the end, Telecom, Telefonica and Telintar got two additional years to operate without competition, rather than three. (references)

Tijuana has had a long history of water supply problems, and those problems got worst with the growing of the maquiladora industry and population growth. (references)

Economic History

Turkey

CS Turkey is aware of two disputes involving the GOT. (references)

Turkey

Certain activities are reserved for GOT owned enterprises. (references)

Turkey

The GOT agency expropriating the property negotiates and proposes a purchase price. (references)

Political Economy

TURKEY

Services Barriers: Establishment in financial services, including banking and insurance, and in the petroleum sector requires special permission from the GOT. (references)

TURKEY

The GOT forecasts a return to growth of about four percent in 2002. Inflation in 2001 is projected to increase to 85 percent, and then to fall to about 35 percent in 2002. (references)

Turkey

The U.S.-Turkey Bilateral Investment Treaty has been in place since 1986. A Bilateral Tax Treaty was signed in March 1996, and implemented in January 1998. A Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) was signed in September 1999. U.S. and Government of Turkey (GOT) economic officials meet regularly within the framework of a Joint Economic Commission (JEC) and the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council. (references)

Trade

Turkey

Firms bidding on GOT contracts should pay careful attention to the way proposals are prepared and should strictly follow the administrative specifications. (references)

Turkey

There are no known foreign-exchange limits placed on importers by the GOT, and there are no restrictions on the transfer of funds in or out of the country. (references)

Turkey

The GOT estimates that as a result of its accession to the European Customs Union, the average duty rate for imports from the European Union and EFTA countries has dropped from approximately ten percent to zero. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "GOT": got drunk ♦ got it ♦ got it! ♦ got rest his soul! ♦ got sick ♦ has the cat got your tongue? ♦ have got ♦ have got a cold ♦ have got a record ♦ have got over with ♦ have got pins and needles in my legs ♦ have got the hang of smb. ♦ have got the wind up ♦ have got through ♦ have got to ♦ have you got all you require? ♦ having got thus far ♦ he got away with it ♦ he got good and angry ♦ he got it hot for that ♦ he got knock on the head ♦ he got you there! ♦ he has got a screw loose ♦ he hasn't got any money ♦ he's got his wits about him ♦ he's got it all round his neck ♦ he's got quite a record ♦ i got bored! ♦ i have got pins and needles in my legs ♦ i have got the measles ♦ the news got abroad ♦ To got one's hand in ♦ when it got dark. Additional references.

Beginning with "GOT": got-a, got-there-first, got-up.

Ending with "GOT": g-g-g-g-got, g-got, still-got, we-got.

Containing "GOT": Eee-by-god-i've-got-a-stomach-ache, I'm-sir-john-and-i've-got-a-spoon-and-seal-and-my-family-lies-at-kingsbere, who-got-what-in-which-treaty.

Afrikaans

hк (have, have got), hê (have, have got, to have), beethê (fool, have, have got hold of, hoax, mystify, trick). (various references)

Albanian

njohëm (got acquainted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏له طريقته الخاصة (he got away with it). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вземам (borrow, cover, fetch, get, gotten, levy, load, partake, pick up, pot, retake, take, take away, take in, take up). (various references)

Catalan

tenir (desire, have, have got, to have, wish). (various references)

Chinese 

得到 (get, GETS, Getting, Gotten). (various references)

Czech

min.èas i příè.min. od get. (various references)

Danish

have (garden, have, have got). (various references)

Dutch

heeft (has, have, have got), hebben (have, have got), erop nahouden (have, have got, own, possess), beethebben (have got hold of). (various references)

Esperanto

manteni (have got hold of), havi (have, have got). (various references)

Faeroese

hava (have, have got). (various references)

Farsi 

زمان گذشته فعلteg . (various references)

Finnish

minun tuli jano (I got thirsty), hän suoriutui voittajana väittelystä (he got the better of his opponent in the debate), hänessä on ainesta joksikin (he has got the makings of . . in him), hänkö sen sai? (was it he who got it?), hätääntyi suunniltaan (got scared out of his wits), jouduin alakynteen (he got the better of me, I came off the loser), kastelin jalkani (my feet got wet), kotiin tullessani (when I got home), minua alkoi nukuttaa (I got sleepy), alkoi tuulla (a wind got up), minun on lähdettävä (got to be going, I must be off), toiveeni on täyttynyt (I've got my wish), minun tuli lämmin (I got warm), mitä sinulla on sanottavaa (what have you got to say?), omistaa (dedicate, have, have got, own, possess), paloi pohjaan (got burnt), sain sen kohdalleen (I got it put straight), sain sen vaivanpalkkiona (I got it for my trouble), sinullahan on auto (haven't you?, you have got a car), suonta vetää (I have got a cramp), minulla on paljon työtä (I have got a great deal of work). (various references)

French

avoir (have got). (various references)

Frisian

ha (have, have got). (various references)

Galician

ten (have, it has, you have, you have got), temos (we have got), teño (have, I have got), teñen (have you got). (various references)

German

bekam, abgekriegt. (various references)

Greek 

αόρ. του get. (various references)

Hungarian

keres (ask after, ask for, feel, hunt for, look for, look out, quest, search, seek after, to addle, to earn, to get, to look for, to mouse, to pick up, to take five hundred dollars a week), beszerez (get, lay up, provide, to get, to get in, to lay up, to procure, to provide, to purchase), elér (accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, get, get at, get hold of, made, overtake, reach, to attain, to chalk up, to come up with, to get, to make, to realize), elcsíp (nab, snaffle, to corral, to get, to grab at, to grab for, to grab hold of, to nab, to nick, to nip, to snap), eljut (get to, to get, to get at), elvégeztet (to get), helyre juttat (to get), hozzáfog vmihez (to get, to get around to sg, to get doing sg, to go about), jut (made, to come into line with the landmarks, to fetch up, to get, to get into, to make), kap (get, receive, take, to be given, to get, to receive, to row, to snatch, to take wing), kapott, állapotba juttat (to get), kerül vhova (to get), vásárol (bought, buy, purchase, take over, to buy, to cope, to get), kinyer (to get, to retrieve), lesz vmilyen (to get), magához vesz (to get, to ingest, to take in), megért (apprehend, comprehend, perceive, realize, see, see the light, take in smth., to apprehend, to catch up, to comprehend, to conceit, to conceive of, to get, to get the message, to get the picture, to grasp, to perceive, to realize, to savvy, to tumble to, understand, vert), nemz (beget, bred, engender, gender, interface, procreate, to breed, to engender, to father, to gender, to get, to procreate, to reproduce, to sire), nyer (gain, have the best of it, to gain, to get, win), rábír (induce, influence, made, overpersuade, procure, to get, to induce, to influence, to make, to tempt), rávesz (bring, entice, get, prevail upon, to bring round, to get, to get around, to induce, to persuade, to tempt), szert tesz (to acquire, to come by, to get, to pick up), tesz vmilyenné (to get, to render), válik vmilyenné (came, come, to come, to get), vált valamilyenné, kerül (cost, get to, to balk, to get, to get into, to go out of one's way, to run to, to set back, to shun). (various references)

Icelandic

hafa (have, have got). (various references)

Italian

venire (arrive, be, be due, be owed, become, come, come out, come to, cost, derive, descend from, get, have got, occur, send, step, to come, venire), avere (be, credit, entertain, feel, get, have, have got, have on, having, own, possess, stock, to have). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

経緯 (complications, details, how it started, how things got this way, particulars, position, sequence of events, whole story), 占めた (all right, fine, I've got it). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しめた (all right, fine, I've got it), いきさつ (complications, details, how it started, how things got this way, particulars, position, sequence of events, whole story), けいい (complications, details, easy, honour, how it started, how things got this way, light, particulars, position, respect, sequence of events, simple, whole story). (various references)

Korean 

얻는 (Gained, Gotten). (various references)

Manx

hooar. (various references)

Norwegian

ha (have, have got, to have). (various references)

Papiamen

tin (have, have got, own, possess, there are, there is). (various references)

Pidgin English

close (got out). (various references)

Pig Latin

otgay.(various references)

Polish

mieć (have, have got). (various references)

Portuguese

ter (accept, do with, enjoy, give birth, hang onto, have, have got, hold, own, possess, receive, take, to have), haver (be, exist, get, have, have got, receive), ficaram bêbados (got drunk), entendi! (got it!), engalanado (got-up), consegui! (got it!), achei! (got it!). (various references)

Romanian

trecut şi participiu trecut de la get. (various references)

Russian 

получать (acquire, charge back, derive, gain, get, got [], gotten, have, make, obtain, receive, relish, score a, score an, take). (various references)

Scottish

fhuaras (va.irr. was got), faighteadh (va.irr. would be got). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proš. vreme i particip od get. (various references)

Sotho

ile (went). (various references)

Spanish

pret y pp de get. (various references)

Sranan

abi (have, have got). (various references)

Swahili

-na (have, have got), na (and, have, have got). (various references)

Swedish

skaffade, fick (might). (various references)

Tagalog

mayroón (have, have got), may (anyone, can, has, have, have got, with). (various references)

Thai

กริยาช่องที่ 2 ของ get. (various references)

Turkish

sıkıldım (I am bored, I am through with it, I am thru with it, I got bored, i'm tired of it), dilini mi yuttun (has the cat got your tongue?). (various references)

Xhosa

emingaphi (Have you got). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "GOT": gothic, gothically, gothicize, gothicized, gothicizes, gothicizing, gothics, gothite, gothites, gotten. (additional references)

Words ending with "GOT": argot, begot, bigot, ergot, escargot, faggot, fagot, forgot, gigot, ingot, maggot, magot, misbegot, spigot, unforgot, ungot. (additional references)

Words containing "GOT": argotic, argots, begotten, bigoted, bigotedly, bigotries, bigotry, bigots, dihydroergotamine, dihydroergotamines, dizygotic, egotism, egotisms, egotist, egotistic, egotistical, egotistically, egotists, ergotamine, ergotamines, ergotic, ergotism, ergotisms, ergotized, ergots, escargots, faggoted, faggoting, faggotings, faggots, fagoted, fagoter, fagoters, fagoting, fagotings, fagots, forgotten, gigots, golgotha, golgothas, heterozygote, heterozygotes, homozygote, homozygotes, indigotin, indigotins, ingoted, ingoting, ingots, logotype, logotypes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"GOT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agot, egot, gatc, gato, gaty, gawt, Geht, geost, geot, gept, geti, geto, gett, gety, ggt, Gho, ghoft, ghog, ghoit, ghor, ghoti, giht, giot, gita, gitt, gitz, glort, glot, glott, glt, gmo, gnot, gnt, goc, goch, godt, goe, goet, gof, goft, goh, goi, goit, goj, gok, golt, Goltz, gom, gont, gooc, gooh, gooj, gooti, gop, goq, gor, gort, gost, gosti, gota, Gotb, Gote, goti, goto, gott, gotta, goty, gou, gov, govt, gow, Gowt, gox, goyt, Goz, gpo, groot, groti, grt, grtt, gst, gt, gta, gto, gtt, guet, guj, guot, gurt, guta, guth, guto, gutt, gux, Guyt, gyt, ogit, zot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tog.

-1 letter: go, to.

+1 letter: goat, gout, grot, toga, togs, tong.

+2 letters: argot, begot, bigot, ergot, fagot, gator, gavot, gemot, ghost, gigot, gloat, glost, glout, goats, godet, gouts, gouty, griot, groat, grots, grout, gusto, guyot, ingot, magot, ought, outgo, stogy, tango, thong, tigon, togae, togas, togue, tonga, tongs, tough, trigo, ungot.

+3 letters: agorot, agouti, agouty, argots, bigots, bought, cogent, cogito, coting, diglot, dotage, doting, dought, dugout, egoist, ergots, faggot, fagots, forgat, forget, forgot, fought, fugato, galiot, galoot, garote, gators, gavots, gelato, gemote, gemots, gentoo, ghetto, ghosts, ghosty, giglot, gigots, gitano, gloats, glosts, glouts, goatee, gobbet, goblet, godets, godwit, goglet, goiter, goitre, gomuti, gorget, gothic, gotten, griots, groats, grotto, grotty, grouts, grouty, growth, guyots, hogget, hognut, hogtie, hotdog, ingots, latigo, legato, maggot, magots, mongst, noting, nougat, nought, opting, orgeat, otalgy, oughts, outage, outbeg, outgas, outgun, outing, photog, pigout, potage, putlog, ragout, ragtop, righto, rotgut, sought, spigot, stingo, stodge, stodgy, stogey, stogie, stooge, strong, tangos, tautog, thongs, though, throng, tiglon, tigons, toeing, togaed, togate, togged, toggle, togues, toking, toling, tongas, tonged, tonger, tongue, toning, toping, toting, toughs, toughy, towage, towing, toying, trigon, trigos, trogon, trough, turgor, voting, yogurt, zoftig, zygote.