<B>google, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-gled,</B> <B>-gling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> in cricket: <DD><B> 1. </B>(of the ball) to have a googly break and swerve. <DD><B> 2. </B>(of the bowler) to bowl a googly or googlies. </DL>
<A NAME="googly">
<B>googly, </B>noun, pl. <B>-glies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Cricket.) a ball swerving one way and breaking in the other as it is bowled. </DL>
<A NAME="googol">
<B>googol, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros, or (10 to the power of 100). </DL>
<A NAME="googolplex">
<B>googolplex, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the number 10 multiplied by itself googol times, or (10 to the power of (10 to the power of 10)). </DL>
<A NAME="googolth">
<B>googolth, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> expressing the ordinal equivalent of a googol. <BR> <I>Ex. ... "ten to the tenth to the tenth" ... is ten raised to the googolth power, i.e., a googolplex. A googol is ten to the tenth to the second power (Science News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="googoo">
<B>goo-goo</B> (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>amorous (used of eyes or looks). <DD><B> 2. </B>gaga. <BR> <I>Ex. I just go all goo-goo when I stand in front of it. It is one of the finest pictures in the world (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="googoo">
<B>goo-goo</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a person or organization that advocates political reform. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a host of individuals that [Mayor James] Curley would simply have called goo-goos (after the old Boston Good Government Association)--persons more interested in municipal improvement and abstract political morality than in personal friendships and power (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gook">
<B>gook, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a foreigner, especially an Asian (used in an unfriendly way). <DD><B> 2. </B>a freak in a circus or carnival troupe. <DD><B> 3. </B>a sticky mess or mixture; goo. </DL>
<A NAME="goombay">
<B>goombay, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the Bahamian form of calypso, accompanied by a bongo drum. </DL>
<A NAME="goon">
<B>goon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a thug hired to disrupt labor disputes. <DD><B> 2. </B>a stupid person. </DL>
<A NAME="goonda">
<B>goonda, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a thug in India. </DL>
<A NAME="goonsquad">
<B>goon squad,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a gang of terrorists. </DL>
<A NAME="goony">
<B>goony</B> or <B>gooney, </B>noun, pl. <B>goonies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a goony bird; albatross. </DL>
<A NAME="goony">
<B>goony</B> or <B>gooney bird,</B> =albatross.</DL>
<A NAME="goop">
<B>goop</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a person who has bad manners; boor; stupid person. </DL>
<B>goose, </B>noun, pl. <B>geese</B> (for defs. 1-4,) <B>gooses</B> (for def. 5,) verb, <B>goosed,</B> <B>goosing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>any one of numerous wild or tame birds like a duck, but larger and with a longer neck. A goose has webbed feet and has toothlike ridges just inside its bill. Geese and ducks belong to the same family. <DD><B> 2. </B>a female goose. A male is called a gander. <DD><B> 3. </B>the flesh of a goose used for food. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) a silly or foolish person. <BR> <I>Ex. Myers was a goose, but he was also brilliant, insightful and high-minded (Scientific American).</I> (SYN) fool, nincompoop, simpleton. <DD><B> 5. </B>a tailor's smoothing iron with a curved handle like a goose's neck. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Obsolete.) a board game in which players follow a track of squares, according to the throw of dice, some squares permitting further advance on the same throw, some bearing penalties. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Slang.) to prod or poke in the buttocks so as to startle or surprise. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) Canned laughter is used by television to goose a laugh from the comatose home viewer (Russell Baker).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>cook one's goose,</B> </I>(Informal.) to ruin one's reputation, plan, chances, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. The team's goose was cooked when it failed to win a single game the whole season.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the goose hangs high,</B> </I>all is well; prospects are good. <BR> <I>Ex. The real reactions of the past have often developed when the goose hung the highest (Wall Street Journal).</I> adj. <B>gooselike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="goosebarnacle">
<B>goose barnacle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a barnacle that attaches itself to seaweed or the bottoms of ships by means of long stalks. <BR> <I>Ex. Goose barnacles [are] so called because barnacle geese were once supposed to hatch from them (Hegner and Stiles).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gooseberry">
<B>gooseberry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small, sour berry somewhat like a currant but larger. Gooseberries are used to make pies, tarts, or jam. <DD><B> 2. </B>the thorny bush that it grows on. The gooseberry belongs to the saxifrage family and to the same genus as the currant. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) a third person accompanying a couple. </DL>
<A NAME="goosebumps">
<B>goosebumps, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) goose flesh. <BR> <I>Ex. I'm goosebumps all over ... (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gooseegg">
<B>goose egg,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the egg of a goose. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) (in athletic and other contests) a zero, indicating a miss or a failure to score. </DL>
<A NAME="gooseegg">
<B>goose-egg, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) to cause to fail or lose. </DL>
<A NAME="goosefish">
<B>goosefish, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fishes</B> or (collectively) <B>-fish.</B> <B>=angler </B>(def. 3).</DL>
<A NAME="gooseflesh">
<B>goose flesh,</B> or <B>gooseflesh, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rough condition of the skin, like that of a plucked goose, caused by cold or fear; goose pimples. </DL>
<A NAME="goosefoot">
<B>goosefoot, </B>noun, pl. <B>-foots.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various weedy herbs with clusters of small, greenish flowers (so called from the shape of the leaves); pigweed. </DL>
<A NAME="goosefootfamily">
<B>goosefoot family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of dicotyledonous herbs and shrubs especially common in alkaline regions, having coarse leaves, clusters of very small flowers, and dry, seedlike fruits (utricles). The family includes the beet, spinach, pigweed, saltwort, and Russian thistle. </DL>
<A NAME="goosegirl">
<B>goosegirl, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a girl employed to take care of geese. </DL>
<B>goose grease,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the melted fat or grease of the goose, used as a salve and in cooking. </DL>
<A NAME="gooseherd">
<B>gooseherd, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who tends geese. </DL>
<A NAME="gooseneck">
<B>gooseneck, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> something long and curved like a goose's neck, such as an iron hook, a movable support for a lamp, or a curved connecting pipe. </DL>
<A NAME="goosenecked">
<B>goosenecked, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> shaped like the neck of a goose. </DL>
<A NAME="goosepimples">
<B>goose pimples</B> or <B>skin,</B> =goose flesh.</DL>
<A NAME="goosequill">
<B>goose quill,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one of the large feathers or quills of a goose. <DD><B> 2. </B>a pen made from such a feather. <BR> <I>Ex. Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose quills (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="goosestep">
<B>goose step,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a marching step in which the leg is swung high with a straight, stiff knee. It is used especially by the German and Russian armies. <DD><B> 2. </B>an exercise in which first one foot and then the other is swung forward and back while standing on the other foot. </DL>
<A NAME="goosestep">
<B>goose-step, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-stepped,</B> <B>-stepping.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to march with a goose step. </DL>
<A NAME="goosestepper">
<B>goose-stepper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who practices the goose step. <BR> <I>Ex. the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag (H. L. Mencken).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="goosy">
<B>goosy</B> or <B>goosey, </B>adjective, <B>goosier,</B> <B>goosiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or like a goose, especially in intelligence;silly. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) jumpy or ticklish. <BR> <I>Ex. a goosy sensation.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gop">
<B>G.O.P.</B> or <B>GOP</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Grand Old Party (the Republican Party in the United States). </DL>
<A NAME="gopak">
<B>gopak, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a very fast Ukranian dance. </DL>
<A NAME="gopher">
<B>gopher, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>Also, <B>pocket gopher.</B> any one of various ratlike rodents of North and Central America, with large cheek pouches, long teeth, long claws, especially on the front feet, and small eyes and ears; pouched rat. Gophers dig holes in the ground and are herbivorous. <DD><B> 2. </B>a striped ground squirrel of the western plains of the United States. <DD><B> 3. </B>a land tortoise of the southern United States that burrows in the ground. <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=gopher snake.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="gopher">
<B>Gopher, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a nickname for a person born or living in Minnesota. </DL>
<A NAME="gopherball">
<B>gopher ball,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a baseball pitch that is hit for a home run. </DL>
<A NAME="gophersnake">
<B>gopher snake,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a harmless, burrowing bull snake of the southern United States. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=indigo snake.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="gopherstate">
<B>Gopher State,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a nickname for Minnesota. </DL>
<A NAME="gopherwood">
<B>gopherwood, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an unidentified wood used in the construction of Noah's Ark (in the Bible, Genesis 6:14). <DD><B> 2. </B>yellowwood. </DL>
<A NAME="gopura">
<B>gopura, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a temple gateway in southern India, surmounted by a massive pyramidal tower arranged in stories. </DL>
<A NAME="goral">
<B>goral, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a goatlike antelope of the mountains of central Asia. </DL>
<A NAME="gorbelly">
<B>gorbelly, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a prominent belly. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person having one. </DL>
