Goo
noun
A thick, sticky substance.
She accidentally stepped on a puddle of goo.
Often appears as...
- puddle of goo
- sticky goo
noun
An amusing term for something messy or unpleasant.
Cleaning up after the babies' meal is always a goo situation.
Often appears as...
- a goo situation
- goo stuff
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A derogatory term for excessive sentimentality.
Some people find romantic films filled with too much goo.
Often appears as...
- too much goo
- romantic goo
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
A thick, sticky substance.
She accidentally stepped on a puddle of goo.
Often appears as...
- puddle of goo
- sticky goo
noun
An amusing term for something messy or unpleasant.
Cleaning up after the babies' meal is always a goo situation.
Often appears as...
- a goo situation
- goo stuff
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A derogatory term for excessive sentimentality.
Some people find romantic films filled with too much goo.
Often appears as...
- too much goo
- romantic goo
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Focus
Use 'goo' to describe something with a particularly thick and sticky texture.
The melted cheese on the pizza was like goo.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
'Goo' often implies a substance is unwanted or creates difficulty when touched.
I got bike grease on my hands, and it's all gooey and gross.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical State
'Goo' refers to substances that are neither solid nor liquid but somewhere in between.
Careful with the jar of honey; it's turned to goo in the heat.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Focus
Use 'goo' to describe something with a particularly thick and sticky texture.
The melted cheese on the pizza was like goo.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
'Goo' often implies a substance is unwanted or creates difficulty when touched.
I got bike grease on my hands, and it's all gooey and gross.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical State
'Goo' refers to substances that are neither solid nor liquid but somewhere in between.
Careful with the jar of honey; it's turned to goo in the heat.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Focus
Use 'goo' to describe something with a particularly thick and sticky texture.
The melted cheese on the pizza was like goo.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
'Goo' often implies a substance is unwanted or creates difficulty when touched.
I got bike grease on my hands, and it's all gooey and gross.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical State
'Goo' refers to substances that are neither solid nor liquid but somewhere in between.
Careful with the jar of honey; it's turned to goo in the heat.
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Majora Carter: 3 stories...
for the local, national and global economy. It's a longer payback than mountaintop removal, but the wind energy actually pays back forever. Now mountaintop removal pays very little money to the locals, and it gives them a lot of misery. The water is turned into goo. Most people are still unemployed,
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Mick Mountz: What...
was that there was no solution designed specifically to solve each base picking. Red item, green, blue, getting those three things in a box. So we said, there's just got to be a better way to do this. Existing material handling was set up to pump pallets and cases of goo to retail stores.
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The brilliance of...
that looks like an airport runway? Neither would any sensible predator. The flashing lights keep the worm safe. Then there's the deep sea shrimp, Acantherphyra purpurea. When it feels threatened, it spews a cloud of glowing goo from its mouth. Who doesn't run the other way
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Seizing Sharks PIPE...
it's like goo brawl how's that khaki I don't think well it's kind of job to do and know I'm in the next you know very those four people said no one expose you had to do see if you would learn to back off in life believe me because someday
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A 40-year plan for...
four-fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval swamp goo those fossil fuels have built our civilization they've created our wealth they've enriched the lives of
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Mapping wilderness PIPE...
the largest alluvial fan of its kind fed by floodwaters from the mighty calving goo basin the size of Texas the world's largest undeveloped river catchment home to the largest remaining population of
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From mach-20 glider to...
matter to you this green goo is perhaps the vaccine that could save your life it was made in tobacco plants tobacco plants can make millions of doses a vaccine in weeks instead of months and
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Regina Dugan: From...
may someday matter to you. This green goo is perhaps the vaccine that could save your life. It was made in tobacco plants. Tobacco plants can make millions of doses of vaccine
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Amory Lovins: A 40-year...
Let's see how. Four-fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval swamp goo. Those fossil fuels
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Disgusting! Blue Whale...
so you've hoisted some of this orange goo out of the water that is blue whale droppings very fierce bitter kind of salty smell to it very very much seafood
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Majora Carter: 3 stories...
for the local, national and global economy. It's a longer payback than mountaintop removal, but the wind energy actually pays back forever. Now mountaintop removal pays very little money to the locals, and it gives them a lot of misery. The water is turned into goo. Most people are still unemployed,
Video examples
Mick Mountz: What...
was that there was no solution designed specifically to solve each base picking. Red item, green, blue, getting those three things in a box. So we said, there's just got to be a better way to do this. Existing material handling was set up to pump pallets and cases of goo to retail stores.
Video examples
The brilliance of...
that looks like an airport runway? Neither would any sensible predator. The flashing lights keep the worm safe. Then there's the deep sea shrimp, Acantherphyra purpurea. When it feels threatened, it spews a cloud of glowing goo from its mouth. Who doesn't run the other way
Video examples
Seizing Sharks PIPE...
it's like goo brawl how's that khaki I don't think well it's kind of job to do and know I'm in the next you know very those four people said no one expose you had to do see if you would learn to back off in life believe me because someday
Video examples
A 40-year plan for...
four-fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval swamp goo those fossil fuels have built our civilization they've created our wealth they've enriched the lives of
Video examples
Mapping wilderness PIPE...
the largest alluvial fan of its kind fed by floodwaters from the mighty calving goo basin the size of Texas the world's largest undeveloped river catchment home to the largest remaining population of
Video examples
From mach-20 glider to...
matter to you this green goo is perhaps the vaccine that could save your life it was made in tobacco plants tobacco plants can make millions of doses a vaccine in weeks instead of months and
Video examples
Regina Dugan: From...
may someday matter to you. This green goo is perhaps the vaccine that could save your life. It was made in tobacco plants. Tobacco plants can make millions of doses of vaccine
Video examples
Amory Lovins: A 40-year...
Let's see how. Four-fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval swamp goo. Those fossil fuels
Video examples
Disgusting! Blue Whale...
so you've hoisted some of this orange goo out of the water that is blue whale droppings very fierce bitter kind of salty smell to it very very much seafood
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Paul Rand
American Designer
In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo.
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Greg van Eekhout
Writer
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the city, in an area called the Miracle Mile, for crying out loud, we have these eldritch ponds of dark, bubbling goo. And down in the muck, there're all these amazing fossils: mammoth and saber tooth cat and dire wolf.
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Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only buy a book that looks soft and that appears to be all about women, even if it isn't. Yet women, unlike men, buy books by and about both sexes.
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Louis Leterrier
French Director
I'm a 'Clash of the Titans'/'Star Wars' baby. I'm not a new 'Star Wars' baby. I'm not an 'Avatar' baby. That full CG doesn't work for me. I need interactivity. I need to feel the goo. I need to feel people coming out of animatronics and just interacting with props.
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Katie Aselton
American Director
I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.
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Jim James
American Musician
You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But you should sleep on it and come back in the morning and make sure.
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Brendan Fraser
American Actor
I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.
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Craig Venter
American Scientist
Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo.
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Alice Ripley
American Actor
I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?
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Paul Rand
American Designer
In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo.
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Greg van Eekhout
Writer
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the city, in an area called the Miracle Mile, for crying out loud, we have these eldritch ponds of dark, bubbling goo. And down in the muck, there're all these amazing fossils: mammoth and saber tooth cat and dire wolf.
Quote examples
Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only buy a book that looks soft and that appears to be all about women, even if it isn't. Yet women, unlike men, buy books by and about both sexes.
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Louis Leterrier
French Director
I'm a 'Clash of the Titans'/'Star Wars' baby. I'm not a new 'Star Wars' baby. I'm not an 'Avatar' baby. That full CG doesn't work for me. I need interactivity. I need to feel the goo. I need to feel people coming out of animatronics and just interacting with props.
Quote examples
Katie Aselton
American Director
I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.
Quote examples
Jim James
American Musician
You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But you should sleep on it and come back in the morning and make sure.
Quote examples
Brendan Fraser
American Actor
I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.
Quote examples
Craig Venter
American Scientist
Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo.
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Alice Ripley
American Actor
I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?
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