Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A snow-plow formerly used on railroads in the western United States.
- noun One who gouges or stabs.
- noun An insect that gouges: applied to numberless insects, designated by some specifying term: as, the plum-gouger.
- noun The bow oar of a flatboat.
- noun A cheat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
plum gouger .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
gouges .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
- noun an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye
Etymologies
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Examples
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Apart from the horrendous economics of this imagine defining a stock-market seller as a "gouger" for selling shares at the current market price rather than the price for which the stock sold on average last month, I thought that once upon a time we had Constitutional protection against retroactive legislation.
Carter's Policies Not Just in Iraq, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Not a gouger, just one to rebalance the time/work ratio.
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If you raise your prices to the point where you attract a complaint, there is a pretty good chance that you will be thrashed as a gouger.
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Any candidate who uses the phrase "price gouger" or "windfall profits" should automatically be disqualified from holding office for being far, far too stupid to be allowed around legislative machinery.
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House, turned off the lights and killed the microphones..." Ann Althouse 2008
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After thinking this over a bit more, just lobbying the NRA wouldn't provide immediate gratification i.e. money for a tourist gouger.
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And while Barack Obama is trying hard to shed his professorial and all-too-Stevensonian air, he's just not a good enough eye-gouger at the line of scrimmage, especially with two people teaming up against him.
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Now I understand the mayor's game: he wants to be the only gouger in town!
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By charging $20, the price gouger makes sure his water goes to those who really need it.
An Open Letter to John Stossel Desi 2005
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You continue on your quest, and finally find that dreaded monster, the price gouger.
An Open Letter to John Stossel Desi 2005
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Now I understand the mayor's game: he wants to be the only gouger in town!
Archive 2005-04-01 2005
sionnach commented on the word gouger
pulls the Hogfather's sleigh in the Discworld series, together with Snouter, Rooter, and Tusker.
August 1, 2008