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-v. 3. prick, poke, stick, rowel, spur, prompt, prod, thrust; push, drive, propel, hound, whip, lash, flog.
4. incite, provoke, instigate, actuate, look for trouble, Inf start something; foment, agitate, excite, arouse, rouse, whip up, work up, stir up, wind up, en-flame, inflame, fire up, kindle, touch off; encourage, urge, egg on, put up to.
5. anger, incense, huff, enrage, infuriate, madden, outrage; exasperate, exacerbate, ruffle, roil, pique, chafe, vex; annoy, irritate, aggravate, hector, nettle, disturb, perturb, torment, plague, badger, pester, needle, persecute, harass, bullyrag.

go-ahead, n. permission, leave, Inf. green light, Inf the nod; sanction, authorization, approval, say-so, Inf. okay or OK.

goal, n. 1. aim, purpose, intent, intention, aspiration, ambition, ideal; end, end in view or mind, object, objective, target, mark, destination, bourne; endpoint, end of the road, end of the line, journey's end, terminus, terminal, last stop, home, SI. payoff; finish, finish line, line, (in track and field) tape, (in horse racing, etc.) pole.
2. score, hit, bull's-eye, touchdown, Inf. pay dirt.

goat, n. 1. buck, ram, billy goat, billy; nanny goat, nanny, nan, doe; kid.
2. Informal, scapegoat, whipping boy, U.S. SI. fall guy; dupe, gull, victim, sitting duck, easy or soft mark, SI. patsy, SI. pigeon, SI. soft touch; laughingstock, butt, fair game, fool, everybody's fool, Brit. SI. mug.
3. lecher, satyr, whoremonger, dirty old man, old goat.
4. get one's goat Informal, annoy, irritate, vex. See - irritate (def. 1).

goatish, adj. 1. goatlike, hircine, caprine, Zool. caprid.
2. lustful, lecherous, lascivious, licentious, libidinous, lubricous, concupiscent, Archaic, lickerish, SI. horny, SI. hot, SI. hot to trot; sexual, erotic, prurient, lewd, salacious, carnal.

gobble, v. engorge, devour, raven, bolt, gulp down, wolf down, ingurgitate; glut, gorge, cram, stuff, SI. shovel; gluttonize, gormandize, guttle, play a good knife and fork.

gobbledegook, n. 1. obfuscation, confusion, complexity, buzz word; educationese, computerese, academese, bureaucratese, legalese, medicalese; wordiness, verbosity, prolixity, prolixness, verbiage, verbalism; diffuseness, profuseness, profusiveness, effusion, effusiveness, gushing; redundance, redundancy, pleonasm, padding, repetition, battology.
2. circumlocution, Inf. circumbendibus, ambagiousness, periphrasis, periphrase, roundabout or indirect expression; tautology, Rare, tautologism, begging the question; shifting, dodging, equivocation, deceptiveness; ambiguity, subtlety, vagueness, indirection, quibble, quibbling; digression, excursus, rambling, winding, meandering, Archaic, ambages.
3. jargon, gibberish, nonsense, moonshine, Fr. bavardage; hocus-pocus, abracadabra, mumbo jumbo; humbug, flummery, SI. bunk, rubbish, tommyrot, Inf. rot, SI. garbage, SI. horsefeathers; balderdash, hogwash, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. SI. tosh, fudge, foolishness, rigmarole or rigamarole; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle.

gobbler¹, n. turkey, turkey cock, turkey gobbler, tom, tom turkey, Scot. bubbly-jock.

gobbler², n. glutton, gormandizer, trencherman, gourmand, SI. chowhound; wolf, pig, hog, horse, ox, cormorant; pantophagist, eater, omnivore; All SI. belly-god, belly-slave, greedy-guts.

go-between, n. intermediary, interagent, internuncio, medium; middleman, broker, factor, agent, dealer, distributor, wholesaler, jobber; mediator, negotiator, peacemaker, makepeace; arbiter, referee, umpire, judge, moderator, third or disinterested party; ombudsman, ombudswoman, consumer advocate, SI. Nader-raider; link, liaison, tie, connection, contact, friend at court; pimp, pander or panderer, procurer, gigolo, fancy man; procuress, Archaic, bawd.