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  1. Contraction.  (colloquial) Got you; have you; as in capture or apprehend.
  2. Contraction.  (colloquial) Understand; comprehend.
  3. Contraction.  (colloquial) Got you covered, got your back; when you have an advantage or responsibility over someone.
  4. Contraction.  (colloquial) Got you back; as in after causing some form of retaliation or revenge against someone.
  5. Contraction.  (colloquial) Got you by surprise; Exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.
  6. Contraction.  (colloquial) Got you by surprise; as in engineering or computer programming; typically an unintended consequence or problem caused by a small variation in areas such as command syntax, function definition, results application.
  7. Noun.  (colloquial) A potential problem or source of trouble.

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