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- noun Plural form of
goo-goo .
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Examples
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This is the Virginia model and it works well, as it did at the national level for decades before the goo-goos got into the act.
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I believe people have a right to petition their government, she told the Post's Mary Ann Akers in a statement that may give some goo-goos * heartburn, but makes sense to me.
Jim Jaffe: Who (Really) Runs Congress? Jim Jaffe 2010
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The liberal goo-goos want to ban money from politics, but now their political hero has made them look like fools—twice.
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Except for a few goo-goos preaching the Good Government Gospel, there are no special interests for reform.
Edward Headington: The Reform Agenda -- Red Pills, Blue Agendas and the Neo-Johnsons Edward Headington 2010
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Except for a few goo-goos preaching the Good Government Gospel, there are no special interests for reform.
Edward Headington: The Reform Agenda -- Red Pills, Blue Agendas and the Neo-Johnsons Edward Headington 2010
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Charlie Rangel and Cotton Mather would not have been good friends; at a time when the Democratic resurgence is threatened by widespread populist revolt, the goo-goos have unleashed the dogs of war against their less-than-perfect allies.
Sorry, Charlie James Taranto 2010
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In the House, the goo-goos are calling for Rangel to step down from his powerful committee chair.
Sorry, Charlie James Taranto 2010
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Except for a few goo-goos preaching the Good Government Gospel, there are no special interests for reform.
Edward Headington: The Reform Agenda -- Red Pills, Blue Agendas and the Neo-Johnsons Edward Headington 2010
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But the grimly moral goo-goos are the hardest people in America to get along with.
Sorry, Charlie James Taranto 2010
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The three men shared a contempt for machine politics and mushy reformers (called "mugwumps" or "goo-goos").
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"Her campaign doesn’t depend on the enthusiasm of upper-middle-class goo-goos."
The New York Times, Playing by Clinton Rules, by David Brooks, March 6, 2008
March 7, 2008