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.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
Goin' off on a motherfucker like that With a gat that's pointed at yo ass1988, N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton:
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It'll make you drop to your knees 'cause you realize, that a gat'll make any nigga civilized.1992, “A Nigga Witta Gun”, in The Chronic, performed by Dr. Dre, Death Row Records:
I never thought it could happen, this rappin' stuff I was too used to packin' gats and stuff1994, 1:45 from the start, in Juicy (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:
Pimp pulled out his gat and let it hang in his hand. His message was clear.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 115:
gat
verb
Etymology Clipping of Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.
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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.2000, George Nelson, One Woman Short, page 27:
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.2002, Brian A. Massey, Shadow Clock, page 293:
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Fact I was chillin' with Notorious BIG when he got gatted. It was a^([sic]) accident. Biggie got in front of my Glock when I was bustin' slugs at some mothaf***a.2005, Lewis Grossberger, Turn that down!, page 198:
Etymology From Dutch gat and/or Middle Low German gat. Compare Icelandic gat.
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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 […]2020, Alexander Rubel, Hans-Ulrich Voß, Experiencing the Frontier and the Frontier of Experience, page 134:
gat
noun
Etymology From Korean 갓 (gat).
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A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen.
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.2021, T. M. Cromer, Pints & Potions: