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The past and past participle of get is as productive of idiom as the verb as a whole. Some noteworthy uses are informal and verge on the non-standard:
a) Use with to-infinitive, meaning ‘to have an opportunity to’:

This was considered a bonus for me, because I got to sit in the front —F. Kidman, NewZE 1988

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Mark and his mother had moved to Holland when he was just four months old, meaning he never got to meet his dadMirror, 2004

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b) Elliptical for have got = possess:

What you got in that jar, Alvie? —M. Eldridge, AusE 1984

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I can't get my head around it, Sharon. Suddenly I got three fathersTimes, 1987

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Right now, we got nine cops in the Miami police department being tried for murderThe Face, AmE 1987

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c) Got to, elliptical for have got to = must:

We just got to live. Isn't that so? —A. Fugard, SAfrE 1980

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‘We got to help these people,’ he says, ‘any way we can.’Newsweek, 1990

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d) Use of got to be to mean ‘came round to being’:

It got to be 11 p.m. We left the way we had comeNew Yorker, 1989

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Modern English usage. 2014.

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  • GOT — steht für: Glutamat Oxalacetat Transaminase, ein Enzym Flughafen Göteborg Landvetter in Schweden (IATA Code) Gebührenordnung für Tierärzte Ganz Offene Tür (Bezeichnung für pädagogische Nachmittagsbetreuung, bspw. in Jugendzentren) Got kann… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Got — steht für: Glutamat Oxalacetat Transaminase, ein Enzym Flughafen Göteborg Landvetter in Schweden (IATA Code) Gebührenordnung für Tierärzte Ganz Offene Tür (Bezeichnung für pädagogische Nachmittagsbetreuung, bspw. in Jugendzentren) Got kann… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • got — [gɔt US ga:t] the past tense and a participle of ↑get ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ HINT sense 1 You cannot say I/he/she etc got in the present tense. Say you have something or have got something: I ve got (NOT I got) a new bike. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • GOT — can mean:* GOT, IATA code of Gothenburg Landvetter Airport * GOT, ISO 639 2 code for the Gothic language * God of Thunder , a video game * GOT an abbreviation for the Great orthogonality theorem * Global Offset Table …   Wikipedia

  • got — GOT, goţi, s.m. (La pl.) Neam germanic, originar din Scandinavia, care prin sec. II a început să migreze spre sud, fiind semnalat în secolul următor şi pe teritoriul ţării noastre; (şi la sg.) persoană aparţinând acestui neam. – Din fr. Goths,… …   Dicționar Român

  • Got — Got, imp. & p. p. of {Get}. See {Get}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • got — /got/, v. 1. a pt. and pp. of get. auxiliary verb. 2. Informal. must; have got (fol. by an infinitive). Usage. See get. * * * …   Universalium

  • GOT — GOT: Abk. für ↑ Glutamat Oxalacetat Transaminase. * * * GOT,   Abkürzung für Glutamat Oxalacetat Transaminase (Transaminasen) …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Got — Assez énigmatique dans sa sécheresse, ce nom peut renvoyer soit au peuple goth, soit à un verre à boire (catalan got < latin guttum), soit à une autre origine. Si vous pouvez m aider …   Noms de famille

  • got|ra — «GOT ruh», noun. the large, folded cloth of the Arab headdress or kaffiyeh. It is held in place by a band of twisted cord wrapped around the head. ╂[< Arabic gu ] …   Useful english dictionary

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