Usually means: Poking someone sharply, often playfully.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. goosing: Merriam-Webster
  2. goosing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. goosing: Vocabulary.com
  4. goosing: Wordnik
  5. goosing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. goosing: Wiktionary
  7. goosing: Dictionary.com
  8. goosing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. goosing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. goosing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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  1. goosing: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See goose as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Goose)

noun:  Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.
noun:  (strictly) A female goose.
noun:  The flesh of the goose used as food.
noun:  (slang, plural geese or gooses) A silly person.
noun:  (archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
noun:  (South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
noun:  (uncountable, historical) An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks, of (a person).
verb:  (transitive, slang) To stimulate; to spur.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
verb:  (slang, UK) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
noun:  A surname.
▸ Also see goose





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