N.W.A.

gat

noun

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a gun

Categories Weapons

Collocates tote²⁸, bust¹⁰, vest⁷, strapped⁶, cat⁵, pack⁵, tool⁵, Ac⁴, crack⁴, 9³, beef³, booyah³, bust³, bust a cap³, clap³, dump³, lac³, on point³, push someone's wig back³, rap³, strap³, 44², 9 mill², air out², bail², biscuit², blast², blast², chrome², crack pipe², crazy², dap², fin'², heater², hoodie², hood-rat², keep it real², Mac², on wax², phat², po-po², QBC², shot², slang², slug², son², spit², straight up², strap², toolie², bout, 12-gauge, four pound, act a fool, ayo, all about, around the way, bitch, black, blaze, bling, blunt, buck, Bucktown, bust a nut, chicken, clap, click-clack, clip, clique, cluck, clucker, cock, Compton, connect, correct, crew, Crooklyn, -iggity, dime bag, dome, dump, dunn, e, Eagle, ends, fiend, figures, flex, flex, fo shizzle, four fifth, gaffle, game, gang, gangsta, gangsta, geah, get your ____ on, glock, gouda, green, green leaf, hella, hit a lick, hoe, hood, hooptie, hundred-sack, I'mma, ill, l, let off, let off, llama, loco, maintain, MC, Medina, melon, murk, no homo, O.G., old school, one deep, pack, pimp, player-hater, plug, pop, project, punk, rack, rap, residential, ride, rock, roll with, rolly, round, sack, scratch, 6, scrilla, Smith & Wess, spray up, stack, steady, steam, steel, stripes, sucker, TEC-9, Timbs, toast, trap, trey deuce, triple beam, twist, weed, wodie, word is born, word up, yac, yo

Etymology pre hip-hop, from the 1900s

Synonyms bammer, biscuit, booyaka, burner, heat, heater, iron, jammy, llama, ratchet, roscoe, steel, toast, tool, toolie, whistle

1987-11-06 N.W.A. "8 Ball" [N.W.A. & The Posse]
Had to go in my trunk, reach inside, cause it's like that, came back out with a silver gat
1988-08-08 N.W.A. "Fuck Tha Police" [Straight Outta Compton]
Drop your gat, and Ren's gonna blast
1988-08-08 N.W.A. "Something Like That" [Straight Outta Compton]
Strapped with a gat, it's more like Matt Dillon

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Origins of Cited Artists

Cypress Hill

gat

transitive verb

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

of a gun, to shoot (one or more rounds);

of a person, to fire (a gun);

of a person, to shoot (someone or something)

Categories Weapons

Collocates I'mma², bitch, Chuck T's, crack, double-deuce, dump, dump, MC, platinum, pop, rapper, strapped, yo

Domains Violence

Synonyms bust, clip, dump, let off, slang, spray up

1991-08-19 Cypress Hill "How I Could Just Kill A Man" [Cypress Hill]
You know I had to gat ya
1992-01-22 South Central Cartel "Ya Getz Clowned" [South Central Madness]
Rollin up strapped and they liable to gat ya
1993-11-08 Brotha Lynch Hung "Had 2 Gat Ya" [24 Deep]
Sellin my momma the crack? Watch yo back, cause you know I had to gat ya

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