Usually means: Waterfowl, known for honking, migratory.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word goose:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. goose: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. goose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. goose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. goose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. goose: Vocabulary.com
  6. Goose, goose: Wordnik
  7. goose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. goose: Wiktionary
  9. goose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. goose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. goose: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Goose, goose: Dictionary.com
  13. goose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. goose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GOOSE, Goose (band), Goose (bird), Goose (disambiguation), Goose (nickname), Goose, The Goose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Goose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. goose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. goose: Rhymezone
  19. goose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. goose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. GOOSE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Goose: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. goose: Free Dictionary
  24. goose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. goose: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. goose: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. goose: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GOOSE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. goose: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. goose, goose, goose, goose, goose, goose, goose, goose: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. goose: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Goose, goose, goose, the goose: Urban Dictionary
  4. Goose: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See geese as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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