informal, disparaging + offensive
—used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a non-white, non-American person and especially for an Asian person
Examples of gook in a Sentence
Noun (2)
don't walk on that clean floor with guck on your shoes
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Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022
Rachael’s radical hypothesis is that menstruation is necessary to flush out bacteria and guck that enter women’s bodies along with sperm during intercourse.
—Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
Take a look: The guck that comes out of what has been classified by INSIDER as an epidermoid cyst seems never-ending.
—Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2017
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Noun
The water levels varied with every step, rising from feet to knees to thighs in an instant, then back to shoe-sucking guck.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022
Rachael’s radical hypothesis is that menstruation is necessary to flush out bacteria and guck that enter women’s bodies along with sperm during intercourse.
—Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
Take a look: The guck that comes out of what has been classified by INSIDER as an epidermoid cyst seems never-ending.
—Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2017
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“Gook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gook. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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