Meaning

6 senses
  1. Any type of gun, usually a pistol.

    a gangster's pistol

  2. (New Zealand, slang)A guitar.

  3. An inshore channel or strait dividing two landmasses (such as two islands or sandbanks, or an island and a peninsula, etc) or connecting coastal waters with the open sea, especially on the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas.

  4. A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen.

    катkat

  5. (Ireland, slang, uncountable)Guinness (type of beer).

  6. (archaic, slang)A Gatling gun.

Translations

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Русский
By meaning 1
traditional Korean hat:

Origin

Clipping of Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling. From guitar, by shortening. Fro

Clipping of Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

From guitar, by shortening.

From Dutch gat and/or Middle Low German gat. Compare Icelandic gat.

From Korean 갓 (gat).

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Forms

plural: gats

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a gangster's pistol:rod

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gat — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto