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  • noun Plural form of goop.

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Examples

  • Cover huckleberry hound or any of the other goops who at least have a chance of standing to lose to Obama in 2012.

    Palin heading to Iowa 2009

  • I came from fairy tales, fraggles, goops, and that little blank book.

    To You, From Me princessalethea 2010

  • All told, there might have been $1,000 worth of goops, goos, tools, salves, soaps and more, with all their attendant belief systems and unsubtle claims of transformation, wedged into every cranny and nook of this shower.

    Tony Greenberg: Scrubbing Our Lives Clean From Dr. Bronner's to Pressure Cookers Tony Greenberg 2010

  • Apparently, these fragrant goops are "designed to protect your skin against the elements," which is interesting because I thought that was the point of wearing clothes.

    Laying it On Thick: Your Epidermis is Showing BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Apparently, these fragrant goops are "designed to protect your skin against the elements," which is interesting because I thought that was the point of wearing clothes.

    Archive 2010-09-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Over at the Village Voice's Runnin 'Scared blog, Foster Kamer has this video shot by YouTube user "CopperTheRabbitDog," who finds himself on Destin Beach on Florida's Gulf Coast and finds it dotted with goops of oil.

    BP Oil Dotting Gulf Coast Beaches, Beachgoers' Feet (VIDEO) 2010

  • I have a pathological fear of elephants, but I'd scarf one of those frosting goops right down.

    Nah, These Won't Traumatize the Kids at ALL Jen 2009

  • It is not repellent, it is some form of lard or long chain poly-glyceride that one goops onto the skin.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • There was something wonderful seeing them in the room together, but also something a little perverse about it, too, like those kinds of chocolate cake that are filled with inner goops of extra chocolate, that have names like chocolate convulsion, chocolate seizure, chocolate climax.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • There was something wonderful seeing them in the room together, but also something a little perverse about it, too, like those kinds of chocolate cake that are filled with inner goops of extra chocolate, that have names like chocolate convulsion, chocolate seizure, chocolate climax.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

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