goose v.3
1. (US und./gambling) to mark playing cards so as to improve the user’s chance of winning.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sportsman 16 Oct. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [Y]ou can get cogged dice, ‘goosed’ cards, swindling padlocks, and ‘convex mirrors,’ to enable vou to [...] ‘win any game’ . |
2. to have sexual intercourse.
| Pearl Nov. [ebook] ‘Things I Don’t Like To See’ [...] I don't like to see vulgar girls in the town / Pull their clothes up, and stand to be goosed for a crown; / Nor a man with light trousers, of decency shorn, / Stop and talk to young ladies while having the horn. | |
| Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden 25: Robert, Samuel, Thomas and Ulric goosed like good-’uns between the toes of his left foot. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘A French Crisis’ in Facetiae Americana 19. | |
| in Limerick (1953) 345: A coquettish glance / She acquired in France / Gave him ants in his pants, and he goosed her. | |
| Outlaws (ms.) 86: He’s supposed to have started goosing when he was eight by the way. |
3. to pursue women, to womanize.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| in Limerick (1953) 18: A young fellow goosed her, / And roughly seduced her. | |
| Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 144: They want to get lit and [...] goose a chorus girl. |
4. to poke or tickle a person in the genital or anal area, usu. by a man to a woman.
| ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in DN III:ii 138: To create nervous excitement in a person by pointing a finger at him or by touching or tickling him and making a peculiar whistle. [...] ‘They goosed him when he was drinking a cup of water, and he threw it in my face.’. | |
| ‘A West Texas Word List’ in DN IV:iii 226: goose, v. To tickle. | |
| Front Page Act I: He gooses Diamond Louie. diamond louie with a leap: Hey! For God’s sake! [...] that’s a hell of a thing to do! | |
| ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 264: As he passed her in the dark foyer, she goosed him and laughed. | |
| Harder They Fall (1971) 175: A smaller Negro who had sneaked out to goose him. | |
| Catcher in the Rye (1958) 149: He’d goose the hell out of you while you were going down the corridor. | |
| Limericks 55: There was a young fellow named Brewster / Who said to his wife as he goosed her [etc]. | |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 89: Tony got real stoned and goosed some dame. | |
| Cunning Linguist (1973) 18: He stiffened as if I had goosed him. | |
| East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 61: I’m on the Underground getting goosed in the rush hour. | |
| Christine 424: The way he sometimes goosed her when he got a buzz on. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Limericks Down Under 73: She preyed [sic] men would squeeze her / And tease her to please her, / And even go further and goosa. | |
| Fixx 141: He reacted as if I’d just goosed his grandmother. | |
| Indep. Rev. 18 June 14: This girl who goosed the Prince’s bum. | |
| Layer Cake 54: The photographer has obviously gone for the just-goosed or just-about-to-be-goosed look. | |
| Nature Girl 159: Piejack goosing him crudely with the barrel of the sawed-off. | |
| Hilliker Curse 30: Dexedrine, Biphetmaine, Desoxyn. A gonad-goosing triad. | |
| Observer Mag. 9 Jan. 11/3: As I bent over to examine the ceramic [...] he goosed me. | |
| Cherry 44: Tommy was drunk as fuck. I was supposed to help him to not throw up on anybody or goose a slut or whatever it was they thought he might do. |
5. (US) of emotions, to press, to push, to provoke, to enliven.
 | see sense 2. | |
| What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 140: If you ask me [...] the Guild has one foot in the grave — and it’s goosing itself with the other. | |
| Criminal (1993) 58: What about the d.a.? [...] Do I goose him today? | |
| Cannibals 244: I have to goose my people and make eight thousand phone calls. | |
| Homeboy 23: The girl [...] whose charge it was to gaga, goose, or garotte incoming rubes into buying a drink. | |
| Indep. Rev. 12 Aug. 8: Bruce’s scabrous, angry glee [...] with which he goosed and jabbed at the public’s prejudices. | |
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 629: ‘Raul’ goosed Jimmy Ray. Cash perks and meth. |
6. of a person, to push, to poke.
| ‘Addenda -The Northwest’ in DN IV:ii 163: goose, v. To startle, as by jumping or poking. | |
| Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye in Four Novels (1983) 83: The sun had [...] poked up a couple of playful fingers, goosing the last thin remnant of night. | |
| Mott the Hoople 148: Ever been goosed from behind by another car while doing sixty mph? | |
| Airtight Willie and Me 96: He goosed him toward the sofa with the snub barrel of the shotgun. |
7. (US) to accelerate a car; thus goose up, to move forward a short distance.
| Thieves Like Us (1999) 6: Get her off the highway [...] Goose her. | |
| ‘Death’s Passport’ in Goodstone Pulps (1970) 117/2: ‘Goose this thing.’ [...] He blooped that sedan up to seventy. | |
| Real Cool Killers (1969) 13: ‘Better goose it.’ [...] ‘I reckon so,’ the driver replied laconically. | |
| Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 54: He climbed in [to the cab] and leaned forward and said ‘Penn Station and goose it’. | |
| Stand (1990) 150: He began to goose the gas pedal. | |
| Blue Highways 71: The engine turned hard, then started, and I goosed it pretty good. | |
| Tourist Season (1987) 33: Keyes goosed his little MG convertible across the causeway and made it to the motel in eighteen minutes flat. | |
| Rivethead (1992) 157: Lovely Louise [...] goosin’ that big black chariot through a bend in the brush. | |
| Finnegan’s Week 266: She hadn’t noticed that tension was causing her to goose the gas pedal. | |
| Dreamcatcher 578: If you could goose it ... even if just a little. | |
| Gutshot Straight [ebook] [of a motorbike] Gina goosed the throttle and the bike’s seat squirted out from beneath him. | |
| Widespread Panic 178: I goosed the gas [...] I cut north on Broadway. |
8. to perform anal intercourse.
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 88: anal intercourse [...] goose (dated). |
9. (US) to grab.
| Exit 3 and Other Stories 16: Angel smile on his face while one hand or the other gooses your wallet every time you turn to blow your nose for the departed? |
10. to increase the volume on a radio, sound system or TV; the strength of the air-conditioning.
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 44: Wayne watched TV. Wayne goosed the sound. Wayne caught a press gig. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 18: I goosed the [radio] dial and got sound. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 252: My cubicle was wicked hot. I goosed the AC . |
11. (US campus) to grasp someone’s testicles from behind, as a prank.
| Penthouse Mar. 24: Goose, to: Slang term for [...] the grasping of someone’s testicles from behind. |
12. to improve, to cajole into progress.
| Conant 91: ‘[W]ould you mind goosing up that column a little? It’s dying. It spoiled my breakfast this morning’. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Maclean’s (Toronto) 28 June 52: But what’s the use of goosing up wages if the cities’ workers live in dreary, faceless prisons. | |
| Double Whammy (1990) 211: Start pushing the thing [i.e. a TV show] hard. Goose the ratings. | |
| Permanent Midnight 37: The drugs that sealed the gig that lured the girl that goosed the career that fanned the habit. | |
| ‘Where I Get My Weird Shit’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 37: LBJ goosed the Vietnam troop count. |
13. to excite sexually.
| Robbers (2001) 25: Goosing him, stirring that old goood thang. |
14. to augment, to increase.
| Drop Dead, My Lovely (2005) 82: I thanked him and paid the bill, goosing the tip for his helpfulness. | |
| Pirate for Life 104: [T]he designated hitter rule [...] was the biggest change baseball ever made to goose offensive numbers. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 133: Equipment rooms goosed the extra space. |
15. (US drugs) to inhale a measure of a powdered narcotic.
| ‘A Clean White Sun’ in ThugLit Sept./Oct. [ebook] [I] goose a line of flake off the kitchen counter. |