Gat

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æt

From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

Full definition of gat

Noun

1. (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
2. (slang, 1920's gangster) Any type of gun; usually in reference to a pistol.
• 1939, Raymond Chandler, .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.
• 1988, N.W.A, Goin' off on a motherfucker like thatWith a gat that's pointed at yo ass

Verb

1. (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
• 2000, George Nelson, One Woman Short, He in a black suit in a coffin, gatted by a junkie for his fake Rolex watch at a taco stand on Western.
• 2002, Brian A. Massey, Shadow Clock‎, 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.
• 2005, Lewis Grossberger, Turn that down!, Fact I was chillin' with Notorious BIG when he got gatted. It was a accident. Biggie got in front of my Glock when I was bustin' slugs at some mothaf***a.

From guitar, by shortening

Noun

1. (New Zealand, slang) A guitar

Verb

1. (Scottish and Northern English, or archaic)

   gat

   (simple past of get)
   And Abraham gat up early in the morning (Genesis 19

Anagrams

• GTA, tag, TGA