Meaning

• Senses relating to cutting tools.

• A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.

  "The nail left a deep gouge in the tire."

• (originally United States) An act of gouging.

• A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.

• An impostor.

• Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.

• Information.

Meaning

• To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.

  "Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood."

• To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.

  "The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers."

• To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.

• To use a gouge.