goop
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
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a rude or ill-mannered person
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any sticky or semiliquid substance
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of goop1
Expressive coinage, apparently first used by Gelett Burgess in his book Goops and How to Be Them (1900)
Origin of goop2
Example Sentences
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Two problems: At the time, renewable energy cost too much to make it affordable, and adding water usually turns quicklime into an unwieldy goop.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Chef endorsements are probably doubly important for fake cheese, since people know it today as disappointing goop.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2024
And in that goop is where our show lives.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024
Train cars on the tunnel’s custom-built rail line carried the muck to a drop shaft in Ballard, where a crane with a clamshell bucket grabbed the goop.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023
He gave Doon a tool belt, too, in which were wrenches and hammers, spools of wire and tape, and tubes of some sort of black goop.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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