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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oughta
modal verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He oughta know.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cause we probably oughta try to do the same kind of format.
▪ Des shuffles his feet, like he's just the driver and didn't oughta be around.
▪ Filter your water like you oughta?
▪ I was there, I oughta know.
▪ Meanwhile, they oughta quit bitching about a process they refused to participate in.
▪ You oughta know who was the big winner at the Grammy Awards Wednesday night.
▪ You oughta learn to keep it down, boy.
▪ You oughta listen a little instead of talking so much about money.
Wiktionary
oughta

contraction (context colloquial or dialectal English) ought to.

Usage examples of "oughta".

You oughta seen the street cars blocked, too--Broadway, Fourteenth, San Pablo, as far as you could see.

I turned the pump on and filled up the water heater, so you oughta be okay that way.

They oughta put you in a cell with some nine-hundred-pound no-neck biker and let him put it to you all night every night for the rest of your life.

Nobody should oughta be let to use that damn slopehead karatty shit, anyway.

Maybe what you oughta do is go back to the Hangout and put your head on a table and just drift off.

She oughta be grateful that we brought her this far instead of leaving her standing where we found her.

Nobody should oughta be let to use that damn slope-head karatty shit, anyway.

I oughta just throw over the whole sitcom package, ditch the world of Recycled Hijinks Ensue and go back to New York, back to doing standup, back to being my own corpse.

Maybe I oughta just throw over the whole sitcom package, ditch the world of Recycled Hijinks Ensue and go back to New York, back to doing standup, back to being my own corpse.

When we get back, maybe we oughta take some of the Creek braves off the fort construction and send them out to get us a few prisoners, huh?

He oughta be at friggin' Harvard, teach those nancy-boys a thing or two.

It oughta take about ten minutes for him to find out that we had sold some sunstones to get the money.

I said no, she oughta settle down and get married, account of she's the type that in a coupla years she'll start getting fat and she can't go on keeping her hair bleached forever.

When Ella Mae came into the kitchen to heat the baby bottle she said, 'You oughta be clean enough even for Alice now--two baths in one day.

The protons and electrons in an atom oughta be about equal for it to be stable, but these were shootin' off electrons, or beta particles, and givin' off something like powerful x-rays, called gamma rays, and things like that.