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- noun nonstandard Plural form of
goose . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
goose .
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Examples
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MMOGs provide a whole new method of feedback which "gooses" the "love effect."
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These numbers are electric, invigorating: they have reanimated the slashers of yore, like the fortuitous lightning bolt that gooses our man Jason in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, or the severed power line that zaps him back to sentience in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.
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In a Keynesian world, when government gooses demand with a burst of deficit spending, the stick figures are supposed to get busy.
Chicago Economics on Trial Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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On the other hand Bellesiles study referenced material that just did not exist, and it was such arcane and difficult material to track down, and as it became apparent that most of it did not exist, then he made up stories to send people on wild gooses chases in an effort to cover up his fraud:
The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Book Coming Soon from Michael Bellesiles 2010
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The easy financing also gooses banks' profit margins and allows them to resolve bad loans with ease.
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These numbers are electric, invigorating: they have reanimated the slashers of yore, like the fortuitous lightning bolt that gooses our man Jason in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, or the severed power line that zaps him back to sentience in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.
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These numbers are electric, invigorating: they have reanimated the slashers of yore, like the fortuitous lightning bolt that gooses our man Jason in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, or the severed power line that zaps him back to sentience in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.
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These numbers are electric, invigorating: they have reanimated the slashers of yore, like the fortuitous lightning bolt that gooses our man Jason in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, or the severed power line that zaps him back to sentience in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.
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It was about playing their best football at the end of the season and with even the notoriously rebellious Antrel Rolle professing his love for Coughlin on Monday, the Giants are clearly playing the type of football that gooses happy talk everywhere.
Dust Off the 2007 Blueprint Aditi Kinkhabwala 2012
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The easy financing also gooses banks' profit margins and allows them to resolve bad loans with ease.
China's Economy Is Headed for a Slowdown Michael Pettis 2011
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