Apart from the horrendous economics of this imagine defining a stock-market seller as a "gouger" for selling shares at the current market price rather than the price for which the stock sold on average last month, I thought that once upon a time we had Constitutional protection against retroactive legislation. From Wordnik.com. [Carter's Policies Not Just in Iraq, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Not a gouger, just one to rebalance the time/work ratio. From Wordnik.com. [Is Charging More the Right Thing to Do?] Reference
They liked it best when I gouged, for I was a prime gouger. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
'Or when the opponent looks like a crusher or a gouger, I always concede.'. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Now I understand the mayor's game: he wants to be the only gouger in town!. From Wordnik.com. [Could They be More Confused?] Reference
You continue on your quest, and finally find that dreaded monster, the price gouger. From Wordnik.com. [An Open Letter to John Stossel] Reference
After thinking this over a bit more, just lobbying the NRA wouldn't provide immediate gratification i.e. money for a tourist gouger. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Planet: Of Luck and Lucky Sweaters] Reference
If you raise your prices to the point where you attract a complaint, there is a pretty good chance that you will be thrashed as a gouger. From Wordnik.com. [Lew Rockwell: Bushian Central Planning] Reference
Ann in North Carolina writes they ought to be required to stand on a street corner with a sign hanging around their neck that reads I was a price gouger during Hurricane Katrina. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005] Reference
And while Barack Obama is trying hard to shed his professorial and all-too-Stevensonian air, he's just not a good enough eye-gouger at the line of scrimmage, especially with two people teaming up against him. From Wordnik.com. [The Clintons’ Patronizing Strategy] Reference
Judge blasts 'medieval barbarity' of eyeball gouger. From Wordnik.com. [offBeat] Reference
There is never a nickel that gets by that old gouger. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman] Reference
Of gougers fierce, the eyes that pierce, the fiercest gouger he. From Wordnik.com. [The Bon Gaultier Ballads] Reference
The gouger became extinct when the last female laid her eggs wrong end around. From Wordnik.com. [Madison.com - top] Reference
We don't to become an aggressive price gouger, to go out and try to do it that way. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
The question is you do not want to be viewed as a gouger, for the second or third job down the line. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
Then there was the deadly side-hill gouger, which evolved two short legs on its uphill side and two longer legs on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Madison.com - top] Reference
He was a good gouger, and had marked up most of the boys on the "flats" as we called the lowlands where the poorer working people lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Puddler]
"Well, you can't expect me to show any special neighborly kindness to the Wall Street gouger who kept me tied up without a charter two months last spring with his steamboat combinations and his dicker deals!". From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
They represent both the first public art project for Kendrick, and also incorporate a new materiality - cast concrete - for this formally innovative artist who has previously adhered to one of the more traditional practices, that of a slicer, carver, gouger and gluer of wood. From Wordnik.com. [post.thing.net - A lean, mean, media machine.] Reference
“My friends I’d like you to meet Alyssa the eye-gouger.”. From Wordnik.com. [Beat 360° 10/31/08] Reference
“Not in a wrestle, no—Hugh’s a biter and a gouger,” Kit said. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
Bianchi: Eye-gouger Brandon Spikes is UF's answer to FSU knee-twister Darnell Dockett. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
And then we set off to walk down gouger street to our favourite chinese restaurant, for a delicious birthday dinner. From Wordnik.com. [death and birthdays, with 007 and the delovely miss golightly] Reference
Bianchi: Eye-gouger Brandon Spikes is UF's answer to FSU knee-twister Darnell Dockett It's time for live chat with Mike Bianchi: Send in your questions!. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
You resent the price gouger. From Wordnik.com. [An Open Letter to John Stossel] Reference
That cross-grained, contrary, rough-and-tumble bear gouger, old Hide-and-Seek, went down yesterday with the last squad of Ferguson's new draughts. ". From Wordnik.com. [Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.] Reference
A gouger is one who stabs with his thumb. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Puddler]
That gouger M'Coy stopping me to say nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
• Turn a sharpie into an eye gouger. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmodo] Reference
That gouger. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
"Especially if the gouger doesn't wash regularly. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
It's actually V.I. Lenin, with the following substitutions: "gouger" instead of "kulak," "hurricane" instead of "war," "disaster victims" instead of "peasants," and "families" instead of "workers.". From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Hate Speech, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
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