Usually means: Charge excessively for goods, services.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word gouge:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. gouge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gouge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gouge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gouge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gouge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gouge, gouge: Wordnik
  7. gouge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gouge, gouge: Wiktionary
  9. gouge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gouge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gouge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gouge: Dictionary.com
  13. gouge (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gouge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gouge (chisel), Gouge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gouge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gouge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gouge: Rhymezone
  19. Gouge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gouge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. GOUGE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. gouge: Free Dictionary
  23. gouge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. gouge: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. gouge: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gouge: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gouge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. gouge: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. gouge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GOUGE: Acronym Finder
  2. gouge: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gouge, gouge, gouge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gouge: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Gouge: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See gouged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Senses relating to cutting tools.
noun:  A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
noun:  A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
noun:  An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
noun:  A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
noun:  (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
noun:  (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
noun:  (slang) An impostor.
noun:  (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
noun:  (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
verb:  (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
verb:  (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
verb:  (intransitive) To use a gouge.
noun:  A surname.

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