- What does gotcha mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A "gotcha" can be a pitfall, trap or potential issue in an environment or situation (or a programming language) A common phrase is "are there any gotchas?", asking if their are any potential issues that will catch you out if unaware of their presence
- What is Gatcha short for? [closed] - English Language Usage Stack . . .
[Gotcha] wiki Gotcha and I gotcha are relaxed pronunciations of "I ['ve] got you", usually referring to an unexpected capture or discovery Gotcha is a common colloquialism meaning to understand or comprehend It is the reduced written form of got you = got + -cha Gotcha can also be spelled as gotchya whereas the related term, getcha, is made by joining the verb and pronoun, get you, with
- Is the term gotcha moment familiar? [closed] - slang
A "gotcha moment" clearly has something important in common with a "Eureka moment": the flash of insight and understanding But in many cases it is achieved in service to an undeclared motive, which is to capture or defeat an adversary
- What do you call it when somone traps you with a question?
2 I think these best fall under the category of "leading questions" That being said, I don't think there is a word for leading questions with the intent of tricking someone, though "gotcha question" seems to fit your examples well leading question: A question that prompts or encourages the answer wanted
- Is there a word for someone who tends to find faults in others?
Thanks! It pays off to subscribe to word a day email lists And "captious" is easy to remember, as it sounds like "capture", as in GOTCHA
- single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I'm looking for a phrase that describes the situation when someone asks a question in a way to elicit an incorrect response For example: Alice: Hey, Bob, have you never done drugs? Bob: Nope! Ali
- “kinda”, “sorta”, “coulda”, “shoulda”, “lotta”, “oughta”, “betcha . . .
In linguistics, is there a term describing this phenomenon, i e , when the syllables of two words are slurred together in the spoken language? They are not contractions While contractions are
- Why past tense in I got this?
The OED has this usage back to 1849 so it's been around a while It says that it comes from omitting have and is "colloquial": b The pa pple [past participle] is also used colloq with omission of (I) have Cf gotcha n , gotta v 1849 Knickerbocker 34 12 They got no principles They got no platform to stand onto 1857 Quinland I 1 Got an hour to spare—thought I'd just run in and see
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