have got
verbEtymology From the present perfect of get.
- I'd got her by the collar.
- Jim's got his eyes closed, so you don't have to worry about him seeing you undressed.
4 more examples
- José's got a car, hasn't he? Neither you nor I have.
- Sorry, I haven't got beer. We don’t keep any alcohol in the house.
- I’ve got a terrible headache. – Have you, dear? Take this tablet and you won't anymore.
- “Well, your mother has got three windows into my dancing room, and you have three into my garret.”1868, George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind:
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Idiomatic, Modal, With infinitive To be obliged or obligated; must, have to, got to
- I have got to do my homework.
- Derived terms
- you never know what you've got till it's gone