gouge

  • (noun): Senses relating to cutting tools.
  • (noun): A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
  • (noun): (originally United States) An act of gouging.
  • (noun): A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
  • (noun): An impostor.
  • (noun): Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
  • (noun): Information.
  • (verb): To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
  • (verb): To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
  • (verb): To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
  • (verb): To use a gouge.
  • The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
  • Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
  • The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers.