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n. - A disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War); Any thick messy substance.

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Usage examples (9)
  • In earlier days it was 'gook' and 'kraut' and 'nip' and 'eyetie'.
  • He promises to meet me at some gobbledy-gook "sally port".
  • And the fact of the matter is, those are gobbley-gook kind of words.
  • In the end, a bunch of gobbledy-gook comes out of the candidates 'mouths.
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