Gots
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 plural of GOT form-of, plural
Verb
- 1 Has, has got (3rd person singular). nonstandard
"Every time I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho / Tryna make a sister feel low / You know all of that gots to go"
- 2 Have, have got (1st person singular). dialectal, nonstandard
""See, I gots bad hair, the kind of hair you have to wet in the morning 'fore you can comb it," he explains."
Example
More examples"Every time I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho / Tryna make a sister feel low / You know all of that gots to go"
Etymology
From a reanalysis of got (colloquial form of have got) as a present tense verb.
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