Usually means: Peanut, informal term; silly person.
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  1. goober: Merriam-Webster
  2. goober: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. goober: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. goober: Collins English Dictionary
  5. goober: Vocabulary.com
  6. Goober, goober: Wordnik
  7. goober: Wiktionary
  8. goober: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. goober: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. goober: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Goober, goober: Dictionary.com
  12. goober: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Goober (brand), Goober: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Goober: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. goober: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. goober: Rhymezone
  17. Goober: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. goober: FreeDictionary.org
  19. goober: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. goober: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. goober: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. goober: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Goober (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. goober, goober: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. goober: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See goobers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (goober)

noun:  (chiefly Southern US) A peanut.
noun:  (chiefly Southern US, dated slang) A Georgian or North Carolinian, particularly one from the pine forests of the Sandhills region.
noun:  (chiefly US, childish slang, Internet slang) A foolish, simple, or amusingly silly person.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To drool or dribble.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To drip or slather; to apply a gooey substance to a surface.

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