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noun (English)
1. (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.colloquialcountableuncountable
2. (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.Synonyms: swindlecountableslanguncountable
3. (slang) An impostor.countableslanguncountable
4. (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.Examples: "At some of the mines on the great Mother Lode, where hundreds of tons are not unfrequently thrown down at a blast, and where a wide, soft "gouge" along one wall enables the minder to keep two or three sides of the rock free, and give the powder the greatest opportunity to "lift" without waste of power, the cost of drilling and blasting per ton is so low that a reduction of one-third, even if it could be made, would not greatly affect the general count; […]"; "The geologic relations seen at the surface continue underground, but in addition 5 to 10 feet of gouge, dipping 68°E, is found to separate the serpentine from the ore zone. The gouge is not sufficiently resistant to erosion to crop out. […] A "bull" quartz vein occurs in places along the contact of the gouge and the ore zone. It does not constitute ore."countableuncountable
5. (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.Examples: "As all naval aviators have learned at one time or another in their careers, “There's plenty of bad gouge out there," and it has, does, and will get the unwary fliers in trouble."; "The Marines and “Coasties” (the nickname for Coast Guard students) were reputed to have good gouge on each class's test. Rumor had it that the Marines had inside information on the questions for the next day's FRR test, […]"USslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.Examples: "Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood."; "Imperfect examples of concave shells are to be seen in the salient of El Capitan, which is itself an imperfect dome, not wholly massive throughout, that has been vigorously gouged by the Yosemite Glacier."; "Gouges [...] are made of steel that is curved to varying degrees to "gouge" out excess wood."Synonyms: engrave, grave, incisetransitive
2. (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.Examples: "The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers."; "[M]any hospitals have essentially abandoned any serious effort to raise funds from donors. They could, like universities, conduct fund-raising campaigns and establish endowments to cover the shortfall caused by widespread fraud (i.e., the false promise by government and insurance to pay patients' medical expenses), but instead they mercilessly gouge their uninsured patients."; "Women like Rachel sail through life wrapping men around their little fingers and gouging them for everything they've got."Synonyms: defraud, swindletransitive
3. (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.Examples: "The recorded cases in which the constituents of the joint were removed at different times, and those also in which the bones or portions of the bones were gouged away, do not by any means afford satisfactory results."; "In milling, a blade with this irregularity in front slope causes the cutter to drag on one side and gouge on the other."; "He tried to clinch and gouge, but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out."intransitivetransitive
4. (intransitive) To use a gouge.Examples: "Blocks are alſo pieces of wood belonging to ſhips, in which the ſhivers, or ſheaves, of pullies are placed, and wherein the running ropes go. [...] The blocks are then jambed up edgeways with wedges in a clave, and the ſheave-holes are made in this manner: the length and breadth are firſt gouged out, and holes are bored half way through the block, along the part gouged out, with an augre of the ſize of the ſheave-hole; then the ſheave-hole is gouged and bored on the oppoſite ſide in the ſame manner, ſo as to meet the oppoſite holes."intransitive
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