ALL meanings of cook someone's goose
goose
C c - phrase cook someone's goose If you cook someone's goose, you prevent their plans from succeeding. 3
- noun cook someone's goose to spoil someone's plans 3
- noun cook someone's goose to bring about someone's ruin, downfall, etc 3
- noun cook someone's goose to spoil someone's chances, hopes, etc. 3
- noun plural cook someone's goose any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks. 1
- noun plural cook someone's goose the female of this bird, as distinguished from the male, or gander. 1
- noun plural cook someone's goose the flesh of a goose, used as food. 1
- noun plural cook someone's goose a silly or foolish person; simpleton. 1
- noun plural cook someone's goose Slang. a poke between the buttocks to startle. 1
- noun plural cook someone's goose Informal. anything that energizes, strengthens, or the like: to give the economy a badly needed goose. 1
- noun plural cook someone's goose a tailor's smoothing iron with a curved handle. 1
- noun plural cook someone's goose an obsolete board game played with dice and counters in which a player whose cast falls in a square containing the picture of a goose is allowed to advance double the number of his or her throw. 1
- verb with object cook someone's goose Slang. to poke (a person) between the buttocks to startle. 1
- verb with object cook someone's goose Informal. to prod or urge to action or an emotional reaction: The promise of time off may goose the workers and increase profits. to strengthen or improve (often followed by up): Let's goose up the stew with some wine. to increase; raise (often followed by up): to goose up government loans in weak industries. to give a spurt of fuel to (a motor) to increase speed. 1