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

She’s expected to share more details in her full guest episode of New Heights — which drops Wednesday evening (Aug. 13) — but for now, all Swifties have to go off of is a clip posted to the podcast’s social media accounts. —Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2025

But these returns will mean some players on the roster would have to go. —Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Aug. 2025

San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle, and every NFL player, doesn’t have to go into gamedays without smelling salts after all. —Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025

Jenkins says that Sandia has a copyright on the code, so anyone interested in using it for TFA would have to go through Sandia’s Licensing and Tech Transfer department to discuss licensing it or establishing a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement. —IEEE Spectrum, 5 Aug. 2025