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the violent verb that became a price tag for getting robbed in broad daylight.
means To dig, scoop, or force out a chunk of something — or, figuratively, to overcharge someone so steeply it feels like an extraction.
from From Old French 'gouge,' a chisel with a curved blade, which came from Late Latin 'gulbia' or 'gubia,' a tool for hollowing out wood — itself possibly borrowed from a Celtic source. The hand tool came first; the sense of carving out an eye or a hole followed, and the meaning of 'carving money out of your wallet' is a much later American figurative twist on the same brutal gesture.
- woodworking tool
- A gouge is a curved chisel sculptors swear by.
- price meaning
- To gouge means to overcharge mercilessly and shamelessly.
- eye origin
- From Old French gouge, linked to thumb-in-eye combat.
- glaciers gouge
- Ice carves valleys by gouging bedrock over millennia.
eye gouging in mma — banned technique in ufc and most fighting sports due to serious eye injuries; jon jones penalized multiple times
woodcarving gouge tool — curved chisel used by sculptors; standard u-shaped and v-shaped varieties for detail work