Sentence examples for a gat from inspiring English sources

They and others said they heard threats to take his gun away, or references to a "gat," slang for gun.

In 1946, Humphrey Bogart, as private detective Philip Marlowe in "The Big Sleep," quipped, "You know, you're the second guy I've met today that seems to think a gat in the hand means the world by the tail".

Others who were there testified that there had been no argument at all, and still others said that there had been threats to take Mr. Coicou's gun away or get a "gat," slang for gun.

According to prosecutors' notes given to the defense, Mr. Coicou told prosecutors last year that he had heard someone refer to a "gat," but at the trial last week, he said he had heard nothing of the kind and did not remember ever saying he had.

Both places have classic touches of American diner architecture: enlarged railroad-car shapes, stainless steel streamlining, and counters with a noirish atmosphere suggesting that Mickey Spillane could walk in at any moment with a gat packed at his side and order a cup of java.

Over at Warner Brothers the studio's most popular hoodlum, James Cagney, went to work for J. Edgar Hoover in William Keighley's " 'G'-Men" — though he still got to handle a Gat — while Hoover granted his personal endorsement of the MGM shorts.

Even Baz Luhrmann would be hard-pressed to design a "Gatsby 2".

Flintoff responds with boundary, then next ball skies it - Gary Kirsten charges in for the catch, can't make it and almost ends up with a Gatting nose-job.

Gatting was not popular at the time, not just because of his wretched engagement with South African rebel tours or his behaviour in Pakistan but also because of his unsmiling roundhead rotundity, the sense of a Gatting-Gooch managerial cartel, a dad's army of humourless sages.

In addition, mGAT1 is highly selective for GABA (Borden, 1996), and applying GABA exogenously helped sustain IPSCs from DA neurons in a GAT-dependent fashion.

The intracellular production of L-GalOA and GalAA, as determined by liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass-spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) from chloroform:methanol:water-extracted cells, demonstrated production of the respective downstream products in a GAT-1-dependent manner.