musta en · VERB
Etymology
Written form of a reduction of must have.
Meanings
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(abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction) Contraction of must + have.
alt of must
I ran out the kitchen and down the narrow hallway. I passed a staircase on my right that led to the apartment upstairs where T.C. and Miss Lady lived. I'd never been invited up there but I had a colorful picture in my little head about how grand it musta been.
2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 38:He musta guessed. There's no other explanation.
Relateds
mighta · hadda · oughta · shoulda · woulda · coulda