get got

present singular third person gets got · participle present getting got · participle past got got · past got got

1. slangTo get taken or apprehended; to get beaten or defeated; to be vanquished or come to some form of demise.

   Did you hear about Sarah? I heard she got got by Christian.

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   In prison I knew I had to make the first move or else I'd be gettin' got.

   And the kind of man you can hire isn't as keen on getting a man as the man himself is on not getting 'got'—that's where the chance is, sometimes, to pull out better than even.

   1921, Frank H. Spearman, Laramie Holds the Range, Charles Scribner's Sons

   Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.

   2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24

   "He can weasel out if^([sic]) it." Ibanez massaged her knuckles. "He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch."

   2023 September 28, HarryBlank, “Hooking Up”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024