gat

• IPA^(key): /ɡæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

gat (plural gats)

1. (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
2. (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep.

     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.

   • 1988, N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton

     Goin' off on a motherfucker like that

     With a gat that's pointed at yo ass

   • 1992, “A Nigga Witta Gun”, in The Chronic, Death Row Records, performed by Dr. Dre:

     It'll make you drop to your knees 'cause you realize, that a gat'll make any nigga civilized.

gat (third-person singular simple present gats, present participle gatting, simple past and past participle gatted)

1. (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
   • 2000, George Nelson, One Woman Short, page 27:

     He in a black suit in a coffin, gatted by a junkie for his fake Rolex watch at a taco stand on Western.

   • 2002, Brian A. Massey, Shadow Clock‎, page 293:

     Vance's death scene would have a racy romantic glamour, sort of like Dillinger gatted at the Biograph, Pretty Boy slain in the cornfield, Bonnie and Clyde ambushed in their Ford Roadster.

   • 2005, Lewis Grossberger, Turn that down!, page 198:

     Fact I was chillin' with Notorious BIG when he got gatted. It was a accident. Biggie got in front of my Glock when I was bustin' slugs at some mothaf***a.

From guitar, by shortening

gat (plural gats)

1. (New Zealand, slang) A guitar

gat

1. (Scottish and Northern English, or archaic) simple past tense of get

   And Abraham gat up early in the morning (Genesis 19²⁷)

Icelandic.

gat (plural gats)

1. An opening between sandbanks; a strait.

• ATG, GTA, TAG, TGA, tag

From Dutch gat (“hole”).

gat (plural gate, diminutive gaatjie)

1. hole; perforation
2. gap; opening

   Hy't 'n gat in sy opvoeding.

   He has a gap in his education.

3. hole or hollowed out area used as a shelter or home by animals
4. (figuratively) dump; a run-down living space, room or house

   Jinne! Jy bly in 'n gat!

   Man! You live in a dump!

5. (golf) hole; cup

• (gap): gaping
• (golf): putjie

• gatvol

gat (plural gatte, diminutive gatjie)

1. (vulgar) anus
2. (crude) rump; buttocks; bum; ass; backside of a human

   Sit op jou gat!

   Sit on your ass!

3. the backside of animals or objects

   Die olifant staan met sy gat na ons toe.

   The elephant is standing with his backside turned to us.

• (backside, ass): agterstewe, blaker, stert
• (anus): hol, poephol

• gatkant
• kaalgat

• agt

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan gat, cat), from Late Latin cattus (“cat”) (compare French chat, Spanish gato). See cat for more.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡat/
• Rhymes: -at

gat m (plural gats, feminine gata)

1. cat (feline animal)
2. jack (device for lifting heavy objects)
3. cat shark

• (cat): mix (colloquial), moix (colloquial)

• gata

gat (feminine gata, masculine plural gats, feminine plural gates)

1. (Mallorca) drunk

• “gat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Middle Dutch gat, from Old Dutch *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą. Doublet of gate.

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• Rhymes: -ɑt

gat n (plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)

1. gap, hole

   Synonyms: hol, opening

2. godforsaken place, hamlet

   Synonyms: uithoek, midden van nergens

3. (vulgar) arsehole, asshole
4. (archaic) port

gat c (plural gatten, diminutive gatje n)

1. rear-end, bottom of a person or animal

   Synonym: achterste

From Old Norse gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːt/
• Rhymes: -aːt

gat n (genitive singular gats, nominative plural göt)

1. hole, perforation (an opening through a solid body)

   Hann notaði skóna þangað til komið var gat á þá.

   He used the shoes until they had got a hole in them.

2. (colloquial, school) a gap in a fixed schedule, an unassigned time in the schedule, usually between classes; break, free period

   Ég er í gati milli níu og hálfellefu á fimmtudögum.

   I have a break between nine and half past ten on Thursdays.

• standa á gati (to be unable to answer a question, to be at a loss)
• reka einhvern á gat (to stump somebody, to ask somebody a question he cannot answer)

gat

1. first-person singular active present indicative of geta

   Ég gat ekki stöðvað hana.

   I couldn't stop her.

2. third-person singular active present indicative of geta

From Proto-Slavic *gatь (“dike”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian hat, Polish gać, Serbo-Croatian gat (“ditch, dam”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡat/

gat m (diminutive gaśik)

1. pond
2. dam, embankment

• gatny
• gatojski
• pódgataŕ
• pódgatki

• IPA^(key): /ɡat/

gat

1. Medial form of gate

From Old English ġeat.

gat

1. Alternative form of gate (“gate”)

From Old Norse gata.

gat

1. Alternative form of gate (“way”)

• cat

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin cattus (compare Catalan gat, French chat). See cat for more.

• IPA^(key): [ɡat]

gat m (plural gats, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

1. a cat

• gata

From Proto-Germanic *gaits, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaid-. Cognate with Old Saxon gēt, Old High German geiz (German Geiß), Old Norse geit (Danish ged, Swedish get), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits); and with Latin haedus (“kid”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːt/

gāt f

1. A (female) goat, nanny-goat

• gāthyrde

• Middle English: gote, goot, got, gat
  • Scots: gait, gayt
  • English: goat

• bucca

E’ gat

From Late Latin cattus (“cat”). See the etymology at cat for further details.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡat/, [ˈɡaɐ̯t]

gat m (plural ghét)

1. cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)
   • December 2007, Vincenzo Sanchini, Tigrin e Biancon in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 8:

     S'i padrùn gio tla pianura,\ chi por gat j è armast te' ghét,\ in s'è mòs da meda tl'éra,\ a raspè mla porta tchjusa.

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) giat

From Late Latin cattus.

gat m (plural gats)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) cat

From Proto-Slavic *gatь (“dike”). Cognate with Slovak hať (“dam”), Upper Sorbian hat, Polish gać, Lower Sorbian gat (“pond, dam”), and Russian гать (gatʹ, “causeway”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡât/

gȁt m (Cyrillic spelling га̏т)

1. ditch
2. dam

• “gat” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• igat

From English got.

gat

1. have
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:20:

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• gat bel
• igat
• nogat

From Late Latin cattus (“cat”). See the etymology at cat for further details.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡat/
• Hyphenation: gàt

gat m (plural gati)

1. cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)