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ˈgɒt əgot·ta

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  1. gottacontraction

    must; need to; be required to

    I gotta learn this for my examination.

  2. gottacontraction

    have a; have got a

  3. Etymology: * Written form of a reduction of "(have) got to"

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  1. gotta

    "Gotta" is a contraction of "have got to" and is used in informal English to express an obligation or necessity to do something.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. GOTTA

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gotta is ranked #60196 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Gotta surname appeared 335 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Gotta.

    94.6% or 317 total occurrences were White.
    2% or 7 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.4% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of gotta in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of gotta in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of gotta in a Sentence

  1. Scarface:

    Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

  2. Robin Lehner:

    We needed the two points, it just keeps building confidence in (shootouts). I’ve been working quite a bit on it this season. I think I won the last one, so I just gotta try to keep the momentum going.

  3. Peter Fuhrman:

    If you're the nervous investors that took Focus Media private for a couple of billion in the U.S., if you're a delivery company and you need money to buy airplanes, you can't wait for two, three or five years, you gotta suck it up and pay the money.

  4. The Patriots:

    You can sit there and feel bad for yourself for a little bit because you’re a human and that’s what you’re supposed to do – or you’re in the wrong profession – but you’ve just gotta move on.

  5. Joey Hensley:

    It had to pass two general assemblies, and now it's gotta be on the ballot and people don't really understand what they're talking about, it's been in our constitution since 1870, and it wasn't talking about slavery like people think about slavery. It was the wording. They were talking about prisoners and we still, you know, confine prisoners. It's not slavery, but it is confining prisoners and that's what it was talking about.

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