Gat in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Gat

You can make 5 words from 'gat' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'gat'
• 2 letters words from 'gat'

3 letters words from 'gat'

GAT 4

TAG 4

2 letters words from 'gat'

AG 3	AT 2
TA 2

Definitions and meaning of gat

gat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

Noun

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

Translations

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

From guitar, by shortening

Noun

gat (plural gats)

1. (New Zealand, slang) A guitar

Etymology 3

Verb

gat

1. (Scotland and Northern England or archaic) simple past tense of get
   • Genesis 19:27

     And Abraham gat up early in the morning

Etymology 4

Icelandic.

Noun

gat (plural gats)

1. An opening between sandbanks; a strait.

Anagrams

• ATG, GTA, TAG, TGA, tag

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gat (“hole”).

Noun

gat (plural gate, diminutive gaatjie)

1. hole; perforation
2. gap; opening

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

5. (golf) hole; cup

Synonyms

• (gap): gaping
• (golf): putjie

Derived terms

• gatvol

Noun

gat (plural gatte, diminutive gatjie)

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

3. the backside of animals or objects

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• gatkant
• kaalgat

Anagrams

• agt

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gat m (plural gats, feminine gata)

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• gata

Adjective

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

1. (Mallorca) drunk

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɑt/
• Hyphenation: gat
• Rhymes: -ɑt

Noun

gat n (plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)

1. gap, hole

   Synonyms: hol, opening

2. godforsaken place, hamlet

   Synonyms: uithoek, midden van nergens

3. (archaic) port

Noun

gat n or m (plural gaten, diminutive gatje n)

1. (vulgar) arsehole, asshole
2. (by extension, informal) the buttocks, butt, bum, rear-end, bottom of a person or animal
   • "Het regent" (nursery rhyme).

   Synonym: achterste

Derived terms

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Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːt/
• Rhymes: -aːt

Noun

gat n (genitive singular gats, nominative plural göt)

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

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

Declension

Derived terms

• 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)

Verb

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

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡat/

Noun

gat m (diminutive gaśik)

1. pond
2. dam, embankment

Declension

Derived terms

• gatny
• gatojski
• pódgataŕ
• pódgatki

Further reading

• gat in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
• gat in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

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Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡat/

Verb

gat

1. Medial form of gate

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ġeat.

Noun

gat

1. Alternative form of gate (“gate”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gata.

Noun

gat

1. Alternative form of gate (“way”)

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• cat

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡat]

Noun

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

1. a cat

Related terms

• gata

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gaits. Cognate with Old Saxon gēt, Old Dutch *geit, Old High German geiz, Old Norse geit, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits); and with Latin haedus (“kid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːt/

Noun

gāt f

1. goat

Declension

Coordinate terms

• bucca (“male goat”)

Derived terms

• gāthirde

Descendants

• Middle English: gote, got, gat, goot, goet, goth
  • English: goat
    • → Abenaki: kots (from "goats")
    • → Rotokas: goti
  • Scots: gait, gayt

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Romagnol

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡat/, [ˈɡaɐ̯t]

Noun

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.

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Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus.

Noun

gat m (plural gats)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) cat

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡât/

Noun

gȁt m (Cyrillic spelling га̏т)

1. ditch
2. dam

Declension

References

• “gat” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Tok Pisin

Alternative forms

• igat

Etymology

From English got.

Verb

gat

1. have

Derived terms

• gat bel
• igat
• nogat

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Venetian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gat m (plural gati)

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

Source: wiktionary.org

• a pistol.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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