1. Web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
   "A flock of geese flew overhead in V-formation"
    
2. Flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)
   "Traditional Christmas dinner often includes roast goose"
    
3. [informal] Someone who is a stupid incompetent fool
   "Don't be such a goose; think before you act";
   - fathead [informal], goof [informal], goofball [N. Amer, informal], bozo [N. Amer, informal], jackass [informal], cuckoo [informal], zany [informal]

1. Pinch in the buttocks
   "he goosed the unsuspecting girl"
    
2. Prod into action
   "The manager goosed the team into working faster"
    
3. [N. Amer, informal] Give a spurt of fuel to
   "goose the car"
    
4. [N. Amer, informal] Boost, increase
   "comes with a free ticket to goose early attendance"

Derived forms: gooses, geese, goosed, goosing

Type of: anseriform bird, boofhead [Austral, informal], charlie [Brit, informal], diddy [Brit, informal], dill [Austral, NZ, informal], drongo [Austral, NZ, informal], egg, egg on, fool, galah [Austral, informal], incite, juggins [Brit, informal], jughead [N. Amer, informal], mampara [S.Africa, informal], meathead [informal], moegoe [S.Africa, informal], muggins [Brit, informal], nip, nit [Brit, informal], pinch, poultry, prod, pump, sap [N. Amer, informal], squeeze, tomfool, twitch

Part of: Anatidae, family Anatidae, gaggle

Encyclopedia: Goose, White-fronted