get got

English

Verb

get got (third-person singular simple present gets got, present participle getting got, simple past and past participle got got)

1. (slang) To get taken or apprehended; to get beaten or defeated; to be vanquished or come to some form of demise.

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

   Did he get stabbed last night? — Yeah, he got got.

   • 1921, Frank H. Spearman, Laramie Holds the Range‎^[1], Charles Scribner's Sons:

     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.

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

     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.

   • 2023 September 28, HarryBlank, “Hooking Up”, in SCP Foundation‎^[2], archived from the original on 25 May 2024:

     "He can weasel out if 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."