gouge
A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
Seen in the wild
One man he disappoint me He give me the gouge and he take my glee Now every other man I see Remind me of the one man who disappointed me
Doesn’t work these days. Ticketmaster is a gouge fest for any event. Bruce knows this. He can’t do anything about it. Middle class cannot afford to see a show when tickets start at $250 just for the seat.
Now I'll have to gouge my eyes out.
Reading that Ontario season tickets holders are now whining that they can’t gouge the market anymore to pay for their excesses has got me like…
Just started to blow up thinking someone had managed to gouge the car door without letting me know but in fact, it was an enormous dead bug.
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A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
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(slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
He makes himself look at his daughter's changing body the way he might look at a gouge on his own leg, forcing himself to examine every detail until he's not looking at a horror but a fact; something that needs fixing.
“One man he disappoint me He give me the gouge and he take my glee Now every other man I see Remind me of the one man who disappointed me”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Doesn’t work these days. Ticketmaster is a gouge fest for any event. Bruce knows this. He can’t do anything about it. Middle class cannot afford to see a show when tickets start at $250 just for the seat.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(originally, US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
The planing-machine, on the contrary, uses revolving knives, which make a succession of little gouges in the wood; these gouges, which would otherwise leave the surface very irregular, are made to leave it tolerably smooth by following o…
“Now I'll have to gouge my eyes out.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Reading that Ontario season tickets holders are now whining that they can’t gouge the market anymore to pay for their excesses has got me like…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Just started to blow up thinking someone had managed to gouge the car door without letting me know but in fact, it was an enormous dead bug.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“i'll gouge you out with my fangs!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“And further more, it’s not really penalizing anything. It’s just restricting it. It’s not like anyone’s being flogged. You’re just not allowed to gouge anymore. It’s a rule, not a punishment. 🙄 … Humans…”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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