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gah | gat |

As an interjection gah

is Used to express exasperation or annoyance.

As a noun gat is

a Gatling gun.

As a verb gat is

to shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.

gah

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 20, author=Alison Godfrey, title=Coles, Woolworths and IGA workers vent about customers on Facebook, work=Herald Sun, quotee=Bronwyn Lovejoy citation
    • , passage=“And stop calling it soccerball! gah ! do any of the tickets say soccerball? no!“”}}

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    gat

    English

    Etymology 1

    From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
  • Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
  • * 1939 , .
    • 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 ,
    • Goin' off on a motherfucker like that
    With a gat that's pointed at yo ass

    Verb

    (gatt)
  • (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
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    • Etymology 2

    From (m), by shortening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (New Zealand, slang) A guitar

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (get)
    • And Abraham gat up early in the morning (Genesis 1927)

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