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sherlock | got |

As a verb sherlock

is (sherlock).

As a proper noun got is

god.

sherlock

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • transferred from the surname.
  • (humorous) A detective (from Sherlock Holmes ), especially used ironically to address somebody who has stated the obvious.

    • Derived terms

    (terms derived from Sherlock) * * Sherlocked * Sherlockian * Sherlockish * Sherlocky * Sherly

    See also

    * (Sherlock Holmes)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To deduce; to figure out; to solve.
  • * 1921 , Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Rainy Week , E. P Dutton (1921), page 77:
    • "Anybody could have Sherlocked at a glance," sniffed young Kennilworth, "that it had been packed by a crazy person!"
  • * 1921 , C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson, The Brightener , Doubleday (1921), page 274:
    • But almost at once I told myself that I ought to have Sherlocked the truth the moment this troubled, beautiful being had appeared on deck.
  • * 1997 , Bharati Mukherjee, Leave It to Me , Fawcett Columbine (1997), ISBN 9780307792297, unnumbered page:
    • He wasn't crew, and he wasn't talent. I Sherlocked that from his clothes:
  • *
  • (label) To search; to hunt; to seek.
  • * 1908 , The Blue and Gold , Volume 35, page 52:
    • That afternoon when the boys were in the field Mr. Frickstad sherlocked around in the tents and under the cots looking for a missing rocking-chair.
  • * 1917 , The National Provisioner , Volume 56, Part 1, page 33:
    • It is reported that Governor McCall will also appoint a committee to investigate the high cost of living, but in the meantime individual investigators have Sherlocked around and their stories would make DeQuincy's Life of an Opium Eater fade into insignificance.
  • * 1919 , Theatre Magazine , Volumes 29-30, page 24:
    • Mlle. Belge's eyes Sherlocked over her chorus until it matched up those curls.
  • (label) To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app.
  • * 2012 , " You've been sherlocked", The Economist , 13 July 2012:
    • The thing software developers fear most is being "sherlocked ".
  • * 2013 , Alex Hern, " Sherlocked: how Mavericks is making some apps obsolete", The Guardian , 28 October 2013:
    • All three developers are in a position common enough that it even has a name in the community. They have been "sherlocked ".
  • * 2014 , Javed Anwer, " WhatsApp CEO mocks Apple for copying features", The Times of India , 3 June 2014:
    • Last year, when Apple released iOS 7 it added a feature to the Photo app, allowing users to sort photos on the basis of location and date. Photoworks, a third-party app, too offered same functionality. In response, app developer Stephen Orth tweeted, "I guess my new app just got sherlocked ."

    References

    *Percy Hide Reaney, The Origin of English Surnames, Percy Hide Reaney , Routledge, 1967, p. 235 English male given names from surnames

    got

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (get)
    • We got the last bus home.
  • (British, NZ)
    • By that time we'd got very cold.
    I've got two children.
    How many children have you got ?
    • I can't go out tonight, I've got to study for my exams.
  • (Southern US, with to) ; have (to).
    • I got to go study.
  • * 1971 , Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry , Ode Records
    • We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!
  • (Southern US, UK, slang) have
    • They got a new car.
    He got a lot of nerve.

    Usage notes

    * (past participle of get) The second sentence literally means "At some time in the past I got (obtained) two children", but in "have got" constructions like this, where "got" is used in the sense of "obtained", the sense of obtaining is lost, becoming merely one of possessing, and the sentence is in effect just a more colloquial way of saying "I have two children". Similarly, the third sentence is just a more colloquial way of saying "How many children do you have?" * (past participle of get) The American and archaic British usage of the verb conjugates as get-got-gotten or as get-got-got depending on the meaning (see for details), whereas the modern British usage of the verb has mostly lost this distinction and conjugates as get-got-got in most cases. * (expressing obligation) "Got" is a filler word here with no obvious grammatical or semantic function. "I have to study for my exams" has the same meaning. It is often stressed in speech: "You've just got to see this."

    Synonyms

    * gotta (informal )

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