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• gee
  gee

  interjection

  (used as a word of command to a horse or other draft animal directing it to turn to the right.)
• Gee
  Gee

  noun

  Maurice. born 1931, New Zealand writer, noted for his trilogy of novels Plumb (1978), Meg (1981), and Sole Survivior (1983)

gee

¹ American  

[jee] / dʒi /

Sometimes jee

interjection

1. (used as a word of command to a horse or other draft animal directing it to turn to the right.)

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verb (used without object)

geed, geeing

1. to turn to the right.

verb (used with object)

geed, geeing

1. to turn (something) to the right.

verb phrase

1. gee up (used as a word of command to a horse or other draft animal directing it to go faster.)

gee ² American  

[jee] / dʒi /

interjection

Informal.

1. (used to express surprise, disappointment, enthusiasm, or simple emphasis).

   Gee, that's great! Gee, I can't remember the book's title.

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gee ³ American  

[jee] / dʒi /

verb (used without object)

Informal.

geed, geeing

1. to agree; get along.

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gee ⁴ American  

[jee] / dʒi /

noun

Slang.

1. a sum of one thousand dollars.

   a birthday gift that cost two gees.

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gee ⁵ American  

[jee] / dʒi /

noun

1. a radio navigational system by which a fix can be obtained by comparing the pulse repetition rates of high-frequency ground waves from two separate stations.

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gee ¹ British  

/ dʒiː /

interjection

1. Also: gee up!.  an exclamation, as to a horse or draught animal, to encourage it to turn to the right, go on, or go faster

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verb

1. (usually foll by up) to move (an animal, esp a horse) ahead; urge on

2. (foll by up) to encourage (someone) to greater effort or activity

noun

1. slang See gee-gee

Gee ² British  

/ dʒiː /

noun

1. Maurice. born 1931, New Zealand writer, noted for his trilogy of novels Plumb (1978), Meg (1981), and Sole Survivior (1983)

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gee ³ British  

/ dʒiː /

interjection

1. Also: gee whizz.  informal a mild exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc

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Etymology

Origin of gee¹

First recorded in 1620–30; origin uncertain

Origin of gee²

1890–95, euphemism for Jesus

Origin of gee³

First recorded in 1690–1700; origin uncertain

Origin of gee⁴

First recorded in 1935–40; spelling of the letter G, abbreviation for grand (in the sense “thousand dollars”)

Origin of gee⁵

First recorded in 1940–45; originally abbreviation for ground electronics engineering

Example Sentences

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So the Chancellor is trying to use this moment of a tangible cut to every household's energy bill as a launching pad for a wider attempt to gee up consumer and business confidence.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

"It was like they wanted to do something, but then really didn't put the effort into it and then said, gee, it didn't work," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

“It’s like, well gee, I mean, I don’t even know where to start.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

“And then when the finance company says, ‘Oh, gee, sorry, we can’t actually get the loan on those terms, could you sign some worse terms?’

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025

“Oh, gee, I’m really sorry, Bobby,” he says, like he honestly means it, “but I’m already running on another ticket.”

From "The Misfits" by James Howe

At the Aug. 4 hearing, Gee voiced frustration with the way the government calculated time in custody — a central holding of the settlement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Gee, thanks—not much different than popping up after flopping on the soccer pitch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

You can't talk about Desmond Armstrong without mention of Jimmy Banks - or "Gee" as Armstrong affectionately calls him.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

That included “Dumbo” — South Korea’s In Gee Chun — who got that nickname years ago because of her exceptionally keen hearing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Gee, that song went, but I’d give the world to see that old gang of mine.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

"It's about finding out what makes people tick, what motivates them. "People such as Ian Botham were good when you geed them up.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2015

"It's great credit to the managers down there who have really responded to the threat of relegation and geed their teams up. It's going to be a grandstand finish."

From BBC ● May 9, 2015

A giant owl mascot geed up the crowd.

From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2014

He said he doesn't know he does it, and said: 'That's just the way I play and I have to shout to get myself geed up for a game.'

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2011

Then the oxen stopped and Uncle John took the bars down out of the holes in the posts, and the oxen geed up again through the gate into the corn-field.

From The Sandman: His Farm Stories by William J. Hopkins

You saw Walker geeing the fans up and everyone felt together.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2021

Eager to work on issues such as attention span, Williams turns guinea pig, submitting to magnetic brain stimulation to achieve better focus, geeing up creativity by means of electrodes over her prefrontal cortex, and more.

From Nature ● Jan. 24, 2017

The main value of celebrity campaigners is in geeing up the flagging activists who really get out the vote.

From Economist ● Apr. 23, 2015

Scott said Malone helped keep him on track, and occasionally assisted with the geeing up.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2012

Usually there is much geeing and hawing, excitement, and continual noise and expletives, about a job of this kind.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman