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Originally meaning 'Game Of The Year', but now used as a replacement for 'epic' or 'cool'. Used unironically.
Guy 1: Dude, I totally just built a car in a cave with a box of scraps!

Guy 2: GOTY.
GOTY by Die Nadel January 15, 2011
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goty • Gotye • gotya • gotyad • gotyakaia • gotyam • GOTYAY • gotyed • Gotye me • Gotyll
Game of the Year for Morrowind Xbox Game
goty by OmNiLaSh October 30, 2003
Group of the year
BlackPink will win the Goty in 2020!
Goty by Kpop terms September 20, 2020
Olek is a greasy polsih goty
goty by Timmy tuff knuckles May 30, 2025
Game of the year, all years

Sometimes used seriously and sometimes used jokingly, it is used to refer to a game that nearly every gamer has heard of, played and loved. This game is one often credited for raising the bar in a particular genre, such as how Goldeneye popularized zoom on rifles in FPS games and had absolutely amazing multiplayer, or how Starcraft introduced three vastly different races to combat against each other instead of traditional RTS using fairly similar races with a few different units. Other frequent GOTYAY nominations are Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Doom, and many others.
Dude 1: Man, I would call SC2 GOTY 2010

Dude 2: More like SC1

Dude 1: Didn't that come out in the 90s?

Dude 2: SC1 was GOTYAY
GOTYAY by AyahuascaTheSage December 21, 2010
The act of yelling out the window, "You didn't have to cut me off!"
The traffic was so bad today that I couldn't help but scream and gotye at other drivers.
Gotye by GingerFreak August 16, 2012
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Literally "dirty" pronounced with a West Indian accent. Can also have a positive connotation, for example Sean Paul's album title "Dutty Rock".
"The girl is pretty but she corrupt and dutty!"

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"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
Dutty by J Hall April 3, 2003
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