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gouger

gow jer

  • n  an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye
  • n  a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

  • Thus is the tenderfoot regaled in lightly populated sections of the continent, where roam the sidehill gouger, the minktum, tigermonk, high-behind, lava bear, hoop snake .
  • Last week, for the first time in 20 months, the law closed in on a gouger.
  • A drunken tinker stands in a Connemara market place after a fair, offering to tear the living heart out of any Connemara gouger who will fight him.
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  • Richard Blumenthal in Legal News Line
    Dozens of complaints by consumers -- likely to reach more than 200 by the end of the day -- concern a range of abuses that we will investigate and prosecute as facts warrant,Blumenthal said. "We will prosecute any price-gouger -- as we did...

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