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gotta

verbverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɡɒtə//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈɡɒʔə]/
  • United States//ˈɡɑtə//
  • United States/[ˈɡɑɾə]/

Synonym of have got to, have to

verb

  1. 1

    Synonym of have got to, have to

    I gotta learn this for my exam.

    If there's beer, dude, you don't even gotta ask.

    “All right, let’s go. They must have sake, eh? Oh, Izuna, will you come along?” “If they have fish or meat, you don’t gotta ask, please.”

    Clavicular, characteristically, attributed his good luck with the criminal justice system to his looks. “You just gotta mog,” he posted on X, above a screenshot of a news headline.

Etymology

Contraction of got + to.

verb

  1. 1

    Variant of gotContraction of got + a.

    I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night

Forms

past tense
had to
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).