gots
verbEtymology From a reanalysis of got (colloquial form of have got) as a present tense verb.
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Nonstandard Has, has got (3rd person singular).
- 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 go1993, Dana Owens, Kier Gist, “U.N.I.T.Y.” (track 12), in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:
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Dialectal, Nonstandard Have, have got (1st person singular).
- "See, I gots bad hair, the kind of hair you have to wet in the morning 'fore you can comb it," he explains.1988 April 8, Grant Pick, “Johnny Washington's Life”, in Chicago Reader:
- What the track? I gots to know!2010, David Listenbee, Stefan Gordy, Skyler Gordy, Peter Schroeder, “Party Rock Anthem” (track 3), in Sorry for Party Rocking, performed by LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett and GoonRock: