Meanings
plural gosus
- rarevideo gamesA person of great skill; master; expert.
it's not too late to start playing it and become a gosu before your friends.
2002 February 25, )(av.-.)3onl), “How common are hackers on B.net?”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet)5 more examples
of course it is possible to become that good, but have u ever played a gosu? thats really krass. i would not say he is the best. there r many as good as him and it will become more n more difficult to become a good starcraft player.
2000 March 12, Yasser Jadidi, “Win money with SC, someone does”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet)I need 50 000 Euros for that project, if one of the gosus here made enough bucks with bw to gimme some, reply to sender :o)
2002 April 22, )(av.-.)3onl), “This guy is trying to steal my mates wife. 2040”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet)the guy you play is a gosu and like you so he let you play and have fuin^([sic]) before killing you, but you're damn too slow
2002 May 20, Xav)3onl), “best stratagy to defeat protoss??”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet)But I've never considered myself as a gosu out of my LAN, where I r0x each and every n00b friends I have.
2002 July 1, )(av)3onl), “June stats”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet)I am not trying to make a fanclub or fame for myself. Some gosus seem to play solely for these purposes, I, you see, get kicks from pissing them off.
2003 March 20, Clark Kent, “Just won with hide the farm....”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)
- rarevideo gamesExceptional in skill; elite.
Like I said, winning against a newbie doesn't makes^([sic]) you gosu.
2002 January 30, Steven Ung, “[OT] Macintosh vs. Windows”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet)4 more examples
Yeah, you're too gosu for me, be it WarCraft or StarCraft. Me = Nuubie.
2002 February 27, Steven Ung, “WarCraft III Beta”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet)Alternatively you can hold down F4 for the entire game with your vestigial human tailbone and the same thing will occur. This is much harder to do because the vestigial human tailbone isn't very long and humans haven't needed it in, oh, seven million years. The most gosu players can do this while playing a 1v7c game, having cybersex with six girls on AIM, *and* getting it on with their two girlfriends in realtime while playing pingpong against the entire Chinese pingpong team.
2002 April 17, Majin Kai, “Is there any way to get past the 200 units limit?”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet)It's comparable to a bunch of gosu Korean players beating you into the ground in two minutes with an SCV rush.
2002 April 18, Majin Kai, “Is there any way to get past the 200 units limit?”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet)Towers were "too strong" at first, gosu players whined about n00bs who built them.
2004 August 23, assaarpa, “How be noob in RT”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)
Origin
- Korean고수(高手)
- Englishgosu
Borrowed from Korean 고수(高手) (gosu), literally "high hand". In English, the term is often used as an adjective in contrast to the original use as a noun.
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Cite this entry
gosu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gosu
“gosu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gosu. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gosu,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gosu.
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