gouger
Britishnoun
-
a person or tool that gouges
-
dialect a low-class city lout
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Michael Volkov, whose Washington, D.C.-based law firm’s specialties include corporate compliance, said he expected more aggressive gouger pursuit by all levels of government.
From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 2020
Working with machinists in Pittsburgh, Driscoll was able to replicate the blade’s curves, based on a photograph his teacher took in 1965, and incorporated them into his own patented gouger.
From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2015
Last week, for the first time in 20 months, the law closed in on a gouger.
From Time Magazine Archive
With Hurley and Adio dropping some serious bucks on their goofy-footed gouger, it�s no wonder.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a good gouger, and had marked up most of the boys on the "flats" as we called the lowlands where the poorer working people lived.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
