- present tense form of gate (3rd person singular).
gates
Example Sentences
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The action�of which there is plenty�is largely laid in the beer king's den, a place of small tables, gats, a periscope, and other gangish claptrap.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because Underworld, crook cinema written by Ben Hecht, made record returns for Paramount a few months ago, hundreds of hideaways, spitting gats, Big Boys, molls, bulls, rods, and mobs have been photographed.
From Time Magazine Archive
But all de worstes' nonsens' T'roo vich I got to wade, I t'ink de t'ing dat gats de cake Ees place called Board of Trade.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
No gendleman would gats into der grill-room bring.
From Psmith, Journalist by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Id is," he said, "to bring gats into der grill-room vorbidden.
From Psmith, Journalist by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
