gat
pronunciation
How to pronounce gat in British English:
UK [gæt]
How to pronounce gat in American English:
US [gæt]
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- Noun:
- a gangster's pistol
Word Origin
- gat (n.)
- "revolver," 1904, slang shortening of Gatling (gun); by 1880, gatlin was slang for a gun of any sort.
Example
- 1. Gat is sensibly equivocal about the future .
- 2. It also makes azar gat 's new book on the relationship between democracy and political and economic success particularly timely .
- 3. Writing in a recent edition of foreign affairs , azar gat , an israeli academic , suggests that if western democracies run into economic problems , a " successful non-democratic second world could then be regarded by many as an attractive alternative to liberal democracy . "
- 4. Gat is a professor at tel aviv university and the author of a well - received previous book , war in human civilisation .
- 5. His latest work is a collection of themed essays , mainly published elsewhere , which makes it a less interesting read than if it had been a single monograph . Nonetheless , gat 's central theme is thought-provoking and disturbing .