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goofus
nounLow
/ˈɡuːfəs/A foolish, silly, or incompetent person.
goofy-footer
nounLow
/ˈɡuːfi ˈfʊtə/A person who snowboards, skateboards, or surfs with their right foot forward.
goog
nounVery low
/ɡʊɡ/An egg, especially in Australian and New Zealand slang; a zero or a failure in cricket (rare); or a derogatory term for a person.
google
nounverbverb-intransitive+1C1
/ˈɡuːɡ(ə)l/A proprietary name for the world's largest search engine; to use this search engine to find information on the internet.
google bomb
nounverb-intransitiveverb-transitiveC1/C2 (Very Low Frequency)
/ˌɡuːɡl̩ ˈbɒm/A deliberate attempt to manipulate search engine results so that a particular website ranks highly for a specific, often humorous, satirical, or pejorative search phrase.
google-bombing
nounC1
/ˈɡuːɡl̩ ˌbɒmɪŋ/The practice of artificially manipulating search engine rankings by creating many web links using specific anchor text, causing a particular site to appear prominently in search results for that text.
googlewhack
nounVery Low
/ˈɡuːɡəlwak/An obscure, successful web search that returns exactly one result when two specific words are typed into the Google search engine.
googly
nounC1/C2
/ˈɡuːɡli/A deceptive type of delivery in cricket that spins in the opposite direction to what the batsman expects.
googol
nounlow
/ˈɡuːɡɒl/The number 10 to the power of 100, written as 1 followed by 100 zeros.
googolplex
nounC1/C2
/ˈɡuːɡ(ə)lplɛks/The number ten raised to the power of a googol, mathematically represented as 10^googol or 10^(10^100); an unimaginably large, finite quantity.
gook
nounVery Rare / Avoided
/ɡʊk/A highly offensive racial slur directed primarily at people of East Asian descent.
goolagong
nounVery low (Proper name)
/ˌɡuːləɡɒŋ/A proper noun, most famously the surname of the Australian tennis champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley.
goolagong cawley
nounLow
/ˌɡuːləɡɒŋ ˈkɔːli/A proper noun referring to Evonne Goolagong Cawley, a renowned Australian former professional tennis player.
goole
nounObsolete/Very Rare
/ɡuːl/An obsolete, dialectal, or rare word meaning to stare or gape in a foolish or surprised manner.
goolie
nounLow
/ˈɡuːli/A colloquial, chiefly British slang term for a testicle.
goombah
nounC2
/ˈɡuːm.bɑː/A close friend, associate, or companion, often of Italian-American background.
goombay
nounRare
/ˈɡuːmbeɪ/A type of drum of West African origin, traditionally used in Caribbean music, particularly in the Bahamas.
goon
nounC1
/ɡuːn/A person who is hired to intimidate, threaten, or use violence; a thug, especially one employed by a criminal organization.
goon bag
nounLow (regional, informal)
/ˈɡuːn ˌbæɡ/A colloquial Australian term for a bag-in-box container of cheap wine, typically of low quality.
goon squad
nounC1
/ˈɡuːn ˌskwɒd/A group of hired thugs or enforcers, typically used to intimidate or harm people, often for a criminal organization or corrupt union.

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