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View synonyms for got

got

[ got ]

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of get.


auxiliary verb

  1. Informal. must; have got (followed by an infinitive).

got

/ ɡɒt /

verb

  1. See get
    the past tense and past participle of get
  2. have got
    have got
    1. to possess

      he has got three apples

    2. takes an infinitive used as an auxiliary to express compulsion felt to be imposed by or upon the speaker

      I've got to get a new coat

  3. have got it bad informal.
    have got it badhave got it badly to be infatuated


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Example Sentences

So you have to find your moments where you may not get the feedback that you want, but you got to walk away knowing that you did everything that you can to bring that character alive.

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She’s persistent in some good ways, in some bad ways, but you got to give her credit for what she’s done.

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When there’s blood in the water, when it looks like everything’s terrible, you got to buy.

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I got to work by finding out where I could link to our guide internally from as many relevant posts on our blog as possible.

When he says this, entrepreneurs just leap out of the woodwork and they say, “You know, you got to be optimistic to get anything done!”

Hair Cressida: Tousled, shoulder-length, just-got-out-of-bed blonde mop.

Cara: Tousled, shoulder-length, just-got-out-of-bed blonde mop.

Let's not lose sight of the other leg--the I-was-CEO-I-wasn't-in-charge-I-retired-retroactively-but-I-still-got-paid leg.

Timothy Geithner has become America's latest if-only-we-got-rid-of-him-it'd-all-be-better bogeyman.

But what I can see is that Geithner has become America's latest if-only-we-got-rid-of-him-it'd-all-be-better bogeyman.

And a handsomely got-up pamphlet, illustrated with woodcuts, was placed in my hands, and I began to study the pages.

Smart, well-got-up young fellow, with a taste for the good things of life, but a trifle thin in the wearing parts.

This is taking the wise in their own craftiness, I reckon: and richly you deserve to lose all your ill-got hoard.

There's not an avenin' but I thinks to meself: Now, me dear, yu've a-got one more to fennish, an' then yu'll 'eve yore cup o' tea.

The handsome and expensively got-up publications inaugurated by Mr. Ackermann, began to occupy our artist in 1799.

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