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gotcha!
- used as a humorous exclamation of a verbal conquest of some sort UK, 1932
A slovening of “got you”. Often used as the gloating afterword when a practical joke is played. On 2nd May 1982, during the Falklands war, the Argentine ship Belgrano was torpedoed by the Royal Navy as she sailed away from the exclusion zone. At least 386 lives were lost. The Sun newspaper printed the notorious, gloating one-word headline: “GOTCHA”. Also used in triumph when a capture or victory has been achieved. - Gotcha. Can’t win. Don’t try. — John Swartzwelder, The Simpsons, 1992
- Okay, gotcha. What did you think I was going to ask? — As Good As It Gets, 1997
- He groped for his jeans and worked his fingers into the tiny hip pocket. Aha! Gotcha, you boundah! — Kevin Sampson, Powder, p. 128, 1999
- I saw him look over and then look away. Gotcha! — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 95, 2000
- Then the General Belgrano was torpedoed, 340 Argentine sailors were drowned, and the nation rejoiced. Gotcha. You sick bastards. — Mark Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful, p. 127, 2001
- used for registering an understanding of what someone has said UK, 1966
- — John Ayto, The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 297, 1998
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