A cutting tool with a curved blade used for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in various materials such as wood, stone, leather, and paper.
A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
(originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
(slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
(slang) An impostor.
(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
(US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
(transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
(transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
(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.
(intransitive) To use a gouge.