Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A sticky wet viscous substance.
Wiktionary
- n. informal A thick, slimy substance; goo.
- n. countable, informal, derogatory, dated A silly, stupid, or boorish person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- n. any thick, viscous matter
Etymologies
- Perhaps alteration of goo. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If you followed the advice herein, you would be establishing drum corps, unleashing electric guitars, investing in overhead projectors, spending many thousands on the latest goop from the mainline publishers, and flitting around from thing to thing until the end of time.”
“Granted, it's better looking than the green-goop from a few years ago … but still.”
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“I got over this quickly though because, honestly, the visceral pleasures of pumpkin goop did take me back to my childhood and scooping out, preparing, and eating the pumpkin seeds are my favorite part of October's culinary rituals.”
“At the end of the 100 years, the goop is eaten up.”
“A can of that spray foam goop is enough to entertain the entire Jardin.”
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“[4] SCRUB THE PLUGS To clean fouled spark plugs, remove the plugs and rinse goop from the firing end with gas.”
“But I don’t try to fool myself that that processed orange goop is good for me, anymore than I try to pretend there’s not a giant glowing neon green Diet Mountain Dew globule taking over my spleen.”
“The goop is a brown-green, and it delivers a putrid-looking earth tone to the yarn, but in a magic moment of oxidization, this color suddenly explodes into electric blue.”
“If you have any leftover chicken, vegetables, and broth what we call "goop" in our house, they can be reheated gently in the top of a double boiler or in a microwave oven.”
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“Claudia was there to get new "goop" so it would have been perfect for her to "tag and bag" her first artifact.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘goop’.
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Your Mother
Joyess
cramp, crumble, cringe, slope, fling, prone, freckle, plank, frock, tramp, slump, crotch rot and 36 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 441 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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bunchofpants's Words
hootenanny, obsequious, pants, coxhill, cacophony, smarmy, serendipity, crap, boogie, fatoush, halibut, stroppy and 23 more...
Tweets
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whichbe Goose poop. Sep 15, 2008