give someone goss

verb

To beat or thrash someone.

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Meanings

verbgive someone goss (third-person singular simple present gives someone goss, present participle giving someone goss, simple past gave someone goss, past participle given someone goss)

present singular third person gives someone goss · participle present giving someone goss · past gave someone goss · participle past given someone goss

  1. USarchaicslangTo beat or thrash someone.

    "Give the red man Goss!" she told him; "Drive him westward from the forest, […] Chase him west, with fire and fagot, Give him Goss! for he's no business, Business none, to be an Injun."

    1856, Q. K. Philander Doesticks, Plu-ri-bus-tah, page 59
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    An assistant about the theatre grappled him, and they were soon upon the floor engaged in a regular rough-and-tumble fight. Two-thirds of the foot-lights were at once kicked over, while shouts of "Fair play," "Turn 'em out," "Give him goss," "No gouging," were heard on all sides.

    1846, William Trotter Porter, A Quarter Race in Kentucky: And Other Sketches, page 115
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