n. A potential problem or source of trouble.phrase. Got you; have you; as in capture or apprehend.phrase. Understand; comprehend.phrase. Got you covered, got your back; when you have an advantage or responsibility over someone.phrase. Got you back; as in after causing some form of retaliation or revenge against someone.phrase. Got you by surprise; Exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.phrase. Got you by surprise; as in engineering or computer programming; typically an unintended consequence or problem caused by a small variation in areas such as command syntax, function definition, results application.