have (got) to go

idiom

1

: to be required to leave

I've got to go. I have a dentist appointment.

2

: to need to be gotten rid of

These old boxes have (got) to go.

3

informal : to use the toilet

One of the children said he had to go.

Examples of have (got) to go in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But Mary’s family shared Rodney’s conviction that real justice would have to go well beyond an isolated payment. —Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025

Strategy change Leong, unlike Pettey, believes that to pull away from the other contenders, Porter will have to go in hard on the former vice president and current governor. —Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 13 Apr. 2025

The country's not safer by having somebody have to go through the whole arduous process again. —Alana Semuels, Time, 13 Apr. 2025

What’s more, the Calgary Flames would have to go 3-0, with the Wild getting no points against the Anaheim Ducks in Tuesday’s regular-season finale, to overtake them. —Michael Russo, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025