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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(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…
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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.
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