gotta
verb/ˈɡɒtə/UK/ˈɡɑtə/US/ˈɡʌtə/
Etymology
Contraction of got + to.
Definitions
Synonym of have got to, have to
- I gotta learn this for my exam.
- If there's beer, dude, you don't even gotta ask.
- “All right, let’s go. They must have sake, eh? Oh, Izuna, will you come along?” “If they have fish or meat, you don’t gotta ask, please.”
Contraction of got + a.
- I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for gotta. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA