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1. Web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
    
2. A man who is a stupid incompetent fool
   - fathead, goof, goofball [N. Amer], bozo [N. Amer], jackass, cuckoo, zany
    
3. Flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)

1. Pinch in the buttocks
   "he goosed the unsuspecting girl"
    
2. Prod into action
    
3. [N. Amer] Give a spurt of fuel to
   "goose the car"
    
4. (informal) boost, increase
   "comes with a free ticket to goose early attendance"

Derived forms: gooses, geese, goosing, goosed

See also: goosy, gosling

Type of: anseriform bird, boofhead [Austral], charlie [Brit], drongo [Austral, NZ], egg, egg on, fool, galah [Austral], incite, juggins [Brit], jughead [N. Amer], mampara [S.Africa], meathead, moegoe [S.Africa], muggins [Brit], nip, pinch, poultry, prod, pump, sap, squeeze, tomfool, tweet, twinge, twitch

Part of: Anatidae, family Anatidae, gaggle

Encyclopedia: Goose