Used in a Sentence

gook

How to use gook in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for gook.

Editorial note

It might be viable to encrypt yourself and keep the keys, because then you're not giving them PHI---just goblety gook.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

any thick, viscous matter

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gook gathered in one view.

noun

any thick, viscous matter

noun

(slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gook.

noun

(slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War)

Example sentences

1

It might be viable to encrypt yourself and keep the keys, because then you're not giving them PHI---just goblety gook.

2

The obfuscated gook that's 80% of the script has 0 diffs from jQuery as downloaded at jQuery. com; and the rest of the script is easy to verify in 5 minutes.

3

All gobly gook. People dont fit in to easy clearly definable categories.

4

This was then made illegal and they said some gobbledy-gook like: "you can't preference the display, you have to show a reasonable number of flights, all in the same format, and sorted by time, price or duration". Or something.

5

This 'code' reminds me of the gobbledy-gook exchanged between the supercomputers in Colossus - The Forbin Project.

6

They were mockingly critiquing it, as the people behind the movie went above-and-beyond typical Hollywood technical gobbley-gook. The point is that it was accurate enough that they could critique it.

7

So now your program is gobbledy gook mess of C/Obj-C/C++/Objective-C++ instead of one unified C or C++ codebase. Basically I'm pretty sure nobody would use objective-C if apple didn't strongly push it on iOS and OSx developers.

8

Less than 1% of passwords contained a non-alphanumeric character, only 4% actually used more than two character types I think we're past the paradigm of gobbledy-gook passwords now. As we learned from xkcd [1], it's possible -- in fact, easier -- to construct a secure password that's also readable as needed.

9

Yes, it takes more paperwork, and yes it helps to create an LLC, but people have been setting up shops a lot longer than they have been creating businesses on the Internet, what we do here is considered "mysterious gobbledy gook" by a lot of people, opening up a store is much more comprehensible to them. Further there is a lot of infrastructure out there that supports it.

10

If you want people, who have never stepped foot in an office and have never turned on a computer, to believe that programmers are treated horribly because they have to type "gobilty-gook" all day long, it would be a pretty easy sell. Likewise, you can easily make the optimum care we can give an animal given our current understanding look like the worst treatment possible to an outsider without domain-specific understanding.

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> If you want people, who have never stepped foot in an office and have never turned on a computer, to believe that programmers are treated horribly because they have to type "gobilty-gook" all day long, it would be a pretty easy sell. Likewise, you can easily make the optimum care we can give an animal given our current understanding look like the worst treatment possible to an outsider without domain-specific understanding.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use gook in a sentence?

It might be viable to encrypt yourself and keep the keys, because then you're not giving them PHI---just goblety gook.

What does gook mean?

any thick, viscous matter

What part of speech is gook?

gook is commonly used as noun.