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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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"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

“I would have been a lot better off if they didn’t, because the fact that I took it said, ‘Oh gee, is something wrong?’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

“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

The head coach marches past, giving Akinkunmi a fist bump along the way, before his team pours out of the locker room, jumping and chanting to gee themselves up.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2023

Anybody says a thing like that the way he said it, they mean it. 2ND JUROR: Well, gee, I don’t know.

From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose

Gee Davy, CEO of the Association of Independent Music which organised the event, said this year's winners demonstrated "extraordinary success" through "collective strength".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Gee made a similar move to enforce the settlement in response to the president’s controversial first-term family separation policy and widespread public outcry over the treatment of children in immigration detention.

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

“You too? Gee, I wonder why,” she said with a sigh.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

"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

He lifted Everilda in, and said 'Gee up!' to his patent carriage, and the intelligent creature geed up right into the air and flew away.

From Oswald Bastable and Others by C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock

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

The children were chatting gayly when a loud geeing was heard; and presently an ox-team was seen slowly approaching from the direction of the granite quarry.

From Bertie and the Gardeners or, The Way to be Happy by Madeline Leslie