goss

¹ British

/ ɡɒs /

verb

dialect to spit

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goss ² British

/ ɡɒs /

noun

informal short for gossip

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Peter Goss, an agent with Corcoran Icon Properties who listed the Pacific Heights eight-flight walk-up, has been in San Francisco since 1999.

From The Wall Street Journal

Goss was on a plane the day the “cottage in the sky” hit the market.

From The Wall Street Journal

People always talk about that Goss goal but a young striker called Chris Sutton put in a centre-forward masterclass that day, and he even found the net as well, with a clever finish.

From BBC

“It’s not hot goss. It’s girl stuff.”

From Literature

Defence lawyer Jason Goss said prosecutors were trying to scapegoat Gonzales, 52, and make him "pay for the pain of that day".

From BBC

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