Gat

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gat¹

  • /ɡæt/

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

Clipping of Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

noun gats

  1. archaic, slang A Gatling gun.
  2. Any type of gun, usually a pistol. You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.

verb gats · gatting · gatted

  1. slang To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm. He in a black suit in a coffin, gatted by a junkie for his fake Rolex watch at a taco stand on Western.

gat²

  • /ɡæt/

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

From guitar, by shortening.

noun gats

  1. New Zealand, slang A guitar.

gat³

  • /ɡæt/

Rhymes with -æt

verb

  1. Northern England, Scotland, archaic, past Simple past of get.get And Abraham gat up early in the morning

gat⁴

  • /ɡæt/

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

From Dutch gat and/or Middle Low German gat. Compare Icelandic gat.

noun gats

  1. 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. Frisian North Sea islands lie off the coast, each interrupted by a gat (eyelet hole), through which the tidal water can enter and run off again. Between the North Sea islands and the coast lies the East Frisian Wadden Sea, which is […]

gat⁵

  • /ɡæt/

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

From Korean 갓 (gat).

noun gats · kat

  1. A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen.

gat⁶

  • /ɡæt/

Rhymes with -æt

noun

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of khat.khat

gat⁷

  • /ɡæt/

Rhymes with -æt

noun Gat

  1. Ireland, slang, uncountable Guinness (type of beer). Ruairí can tell you who goes to what bill, and I can spare a few minutes to show you how to pour a proper pint of gat.

Gat⁸

noun

  1. Ireland, alternative, slang, uncountable Alternative form of gat (“Guinness beer”).gat The Irishman ordered an Irish whiskey and a pint of Gat which were brought to him.

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