goose v.1
1. to ruin, to spoil.
![]() | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn). | |
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2. to make a fool of, to deceive.
![]() | Truth (Brisbane) 16 Nov. 1/4: [A]nd though in slang unschooled / I know enough to know that ‘goosed’ is synonym for fooled. | |
![]() | AS VII:5 332: to goose — to outwit; ‘to fox.’. | ‘Johns Hopkins Jargon’ in|
![]() | Men from the Boys (1967) 66: If the restaurant is a sharpshooter, when he feels the wholesaler is trying to goose him, he switches to a new one. | |
![]() | (con. 1969) Dispatches 88: The last-minute business of going home, the backslapping and goosing; the joshing with the Old Man. | |
![]() | Patriot Game (1985) 68: Quit goosing me, all right? |