got

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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 dad —Mirror, 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 fathers —Times, 1987

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Right now, we got nine cops in the Miami police department being tried for murder —The 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 come —New Yorker, 1989

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Modern English usage. 2014.

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  • 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, 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 — (spr. go), Edmond, franz. Schauspieler, geb. 1. Okt. 1822 in Lignerolles (Depart. Orne), gest. 20. März 1901 in Paris, studierte am College Charlemagne und trat 1841 ins Konservatorium, wo er unter Prevosts Leitung schon im zweiten Jahr den… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • GOT — Abreviatura de transaminasa glutamicooxalacética. Diccionario Mosby Medicina, Enfermería y Ciencias de la Salud, Ediciones Hancourt, S.A. 1999 …   Diccionario médico

  • Got — Get Get (g[e^]t), v. t. [imp. {Got} (g[o^]t) (Obs. {Gat} (g[a^]t)); p. p. {Got} (Obsolescent {Gotten} (g[o^]t t n)); p. pr. & vb. n. {Getting}.] [OE. geten, AS. gitan, gietan (in comp.); akin to Icel. geta, Goth. bigitan to find, L. prehendere to …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • got — verb /ɡɒt,ɡɑt/ a) must; have (to). We got the last bus home. b) have By that time wed got very cold. Syn: gotta …   Wiktionary

  • GOT — Abbreviation for glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase. * * * aspartate aminotransferase; glucose oxidase test; glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase; goal of treatment * * * got past and past part of GET * * * see glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase * * …   Medical dictionary

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