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goose
verb- to jab or poke someone, especially between the buttock cheeks US, 1906
- Henri Cru and I rushed out with our clubs, gun and flashlights, laughing like hell and goosing each other on the way[.] — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 114, 26 August 1947
- He was always saying, “Try this for size,” and then he’d goose the hell out of you while you were going down the corridor. — J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 143, 1951
- And whoops and slaps his leg and gooses Billy with his thumb till I think Billy will fall in a dead faint from blushing and grinning. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 99, 1962
- by extension, to urge into action US, 1934
- Goosing the cops is not a practice rich in wisdom for a professional car thief. — George Higgins, Kennedy for the Defense, p. 7, 1980
- Keyes goosed his little MG convertible across the causeway and made it to the motel in eighteen minutes flat. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 33, 1986
▶ goose the ghost
to hitchhike US, 1953- No money for a train ticket. So I had to hop freights and goose the ghost – we never said “hitchhike.” — Robert Byrne, McGoorty, p. 122, 1972
- I was traveling on freights or hitchhiking (“goosing the ghost” as Jesse calls it, a bit of slang left over from his days as a Bible salesman). — Robert Coover, Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears, p. 121, 1987
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