goo
Americannoun
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a thick or sticky substance.
Wash that goo off your hands.
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maudlin sentimentality.
noun
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a sticky or viscous substance
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coy or sentimental language or ideas
Etymology
Origin of goo
1910–15, perhaps short for burgoo
Example Sentences
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He had a beard and an eye-patch too, And for all I know, he wore one shoe And ate for his lunch a bowl of goo.
From Literature
Poking a hole in the yolk, he watched the yellow goo ooze across his plate.
From Literature
When the ROV returns, there is an excited dash for the samples including seawater, sediment and a forearm-length sea lily coated with dripping orange goo.
From Barron's
But it’s taken years to study him and clean off his sticky goo, a naturally occurring asphalt mixture of sand, gravel, clay and crude oil.
Trefry likened this awkward time of life to the stage in a butterfly’s development when a caterpillar disappears inside a chrysalis and dissolves into goo before reforming into something entirely new.
From Salon
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