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give someone goss en · VERB
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(US, archaic, slang) To beat or thrash someone.
An assistant about the theatre grappled him, and they were soon upon the floor engaged in a regular rough-and-tumble fight. Two-thirds of the foot-lights were at once kicked over, while shouts of "Fair play," "Turn 'em out," "Give him goss," "No gouging," were heard on all sides.
1846, William Trotter Porter, A Quarter Race in Kentucky: And Other Sketches, page 115:"Give the red man Goss!" she told him;
"Drive him westward from the forest, […]
Chase him west, with fire and fagot,
Give him Goss! for he's no business,
Business none, to be an Injun."
1856, Q. K. Philander Doesticks, Plu-ri-bus-tah, page 59:
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