Gridiron vs Goose - What's the difference?
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An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.
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An iron rack or grate used for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
Any object resembling the rack or grate.
(nautical) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
(American football) The field on which American football is played.
(uncountable) American football.
* 1995 October 3, Peter O?Shea, Sports: Out on the field'', ''(The Advocate) ,
* 2001 , (Langston Hughes), Dolan Hubbard, Jackie Robinson: First Negro in Big League Baseball: 1919—'', ''The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 12: Works for Children and Young Adults ,
* 2009 , Deborah Healey, Sport and the Law , reference note, ,
(Australia, and, New Zealand) A generic term for American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.
Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, bigger than a duck
The flesh of the goose used as food.
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(slang) A silly person
* {{quote-book, 1906, Langdon Mitchell, chapter=The New York Idea, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911, page=430
, passage=I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose .}}
(archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
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(South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
(slang) To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.
To stimulate, to spur.
(slang) To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
(UK slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.
English nouns with irregular plurals
As nouns the difference between gridiron and goose
is that gridiron is an instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire while goose is any of various grazing waterfowl of the family anatidae, bigger than a duck.As a verb goose is
(slang) to sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.gridiron
English
(wikipedia gridiron)Noun
(en noun)- I know, there have been found seely boores, who have rather endure to have their feet broiled upon a Greedyron , their fingers ends crusht and wrung with the lock of a Pistoll, their eyes all bloody to be thrust out of their heads with wringing and wresting of a cord about their foreheads, before they would so much as be ransomed.
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- He represented Australia in this year?s rugby tour of England and is as well-known in Australia as any top gridiron player is in the United States.
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- So Jackie?s name became known far and wide as an exceptional gridiron player.
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- 119 Yasser (1985) cites the famous US example of gridiron player Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears.
Synonyms
* football fieldgoose
English
Noun
(geese)- There is a flock of geese on the pond.
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- Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose .