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goof verb- to botch, to ruin US
- But we goofed our stuff! — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 32, 1952
- [T]he cool little pig goofed altogether and at the last possible minute built himself a real blue-lights shack out of clarinet reeds and scotch tape. — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 21, 1955
- Whereas if you goof (the ugliest word in Hip), if you lapse back into being a frightened stupid child, or if you flip, if you lose your control[.] — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, p. 351, 1957
- Or maybe it started when he goofed on the Bertha Travis set-up[.] — Clarence Coope Jr, The Scene, p. 21, 1960
- “The gig wasn’t that easy to put together,” Zaida said. “Red, promise me you won’t goof it, this time.” — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 44, 1961
- She can rattle a pimp into goofing his whole game. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 159, 1969
- to tease, to joke US, 1931
- It never occurs to you that life is serious and there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 194, 1957
- Yo Thumper, man, I was goofin’, I was goofin’. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 36, 1992
- to give yourself away to the police UK
- — Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, 1978
- to spoil an injection of a narcotic, during either preparation or application UK
- — Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, 1978
- to smoke marijuana US
- — William D. Alsever, Glossary for the Establishment and Other Uptight People, p. 20, December 1970
- to enter what appears to be a near coma as a result of drug intoxication US, 1951
- He was, in the junkies’ word, “goofing.” — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 27, 1966
- I was goofing so bad, I couldn’t hold my head up and just kept going into my nod. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 205, 1967
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