2. disguise, costume, outfit, Inf. get-up, habit, dress, trappings, clothes, clothing; style, fashion, manner, wise, custom.
gulch, n. ravine, valley, gully, canyon, gorge, Brit. Dial, clough; gulf, abyss, abysm, chasm, hollow, pit, hole; gap, cleft, crevasse, fissure, crevice, crack, cut; notch, passage, pass, corridor, defile, gulf, n. 1. bay, harbor, cove, bight, basin; inlet, arm, sound, loch, fjord, Both Chiefly Scot. firth, frith; estuary, mouth, Dial, creek, outlet, Southern U.S. bayou, lagoon.
2. chasm, abyss, abysm, hollow, pit; hole, opening, space; rift, breach, separation, break; cleft, cut, notch, gap; crack, fissure, split, crevice, crevasse; gulch, gully, canyon, gorge, ravine, valley.
gull, v. 1. cheat, rook, fleece, defraud, swindle, Archaic, chouse; bilk, pluck, mulct; victimize, exploit, play on or upon, take advantage of; overcharge, SI. soak, Inf. gyp, SI. chisel, SI. gaff.
2. delude, deceive, beguile, mislead, hoodwink; pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, put [s.t.] over on [s.o.]; cozen, bluff, take in, bamboozle, SI. hornswoggle, cully, jockey, Inf. buffalo, Inf. finagle, SI. con, Inf. flimflam, SI. flam, SI. sting; trick, fool, Inf. kid, spoof, put [s.o.] on; overreach, circumvent, get around.
-n. 3. dupe, gudgeon, simpleton, Brit. Dial, cull, Archaic, cully, Inf. chump, SI. sap, SI. schnook, SI. schlemiel, SI. boob; greenhorn, sitting duck, easy or soft mark or target, Inf. sucker, Inf. cinch, SI. patsy, SI. pigeon, U.S. SI. fall guy, SI. softie or soft touch, SI. pushover, Inf. trusting soul; butt, fair game, fool, everybody's fool, Inf. goat, Brit. SI. mug.
4. pawn, puppet, tool, instrument, flunky, lackey, cat's paw; creature, minion, dummy, SI. stooge, gullet, n. 1. esophagus, throat, pharynx, crop, craw.
2. ditch, trench, channel, drain, culvert, run; gully, gulch, ravine, gorge, flume.
gullible, adj. credulous, trustful, easily deceived, unsuspicious, unsuspecting; unsophisticated, naive, innocent, innocent as a new-born babe, born yesterday, wide-eyed and innocent, wet behind the ears; ingenuous, simple, foolish; green, green as they come, inexperienced, immature, gully, n. valley, ravine, gulch, canyon, gorge. See
gulch.
gulp, v. 1. swallow, quaff, swig, drain one's glass,
toss down or off, guzzle, swill; tipple, wet one's whistle, lap up, Inf. chug-a-lug; engorge, ingurgitate, bolt, gobble, devour, tuck in, eat like a pig.
2. suppress, stifle, strangle, choke back, gag, gasp, smother, cut short.
-n. 3. swallow, mouthful, draught, dose,
gumption, n. Informal, initiative, resourcefulness, ingenuity, enterprise, courage, Inf. starch; energy, get up and go, stamina, virility, forcefulness. See gut (def 4).
gun, n. 1. pistol, revolver, Trademark. Colt, repeater, automatic; derringer, shooting iron, six-shooter, shooter, hand gun, sidearm, SI. rod, SI. piece, SI. Saturday night special, SI. heater, SI. zip gun, SI. enforcer; rifle, carbine, shotgun, sawed-off shotgun; musket, breechloader, flintlock, firelock, blunderbuss, matchlock, harquebus.
2. cannon, field piece, mortar, howitzer; machine gun, Gatling gun.
gunman, n. 1. assassin, murderer, killer, slayer, cutthroat, liquidator, bravo, sniper, Euph. silencer, Euph. dispatcher; All U.S. SI. gun, hired gun, hit man, hatchet man, trigger-man, torpedo.
2. bandit, hold-up man, SI. stick-up man, armed robber; terrorist, desperado, gangster, mobster, racketeer, mafioso; thug, hoodlum, Si. hood, Inf. goon, hooligan, ruffian.