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goo

[goo] / gu /
NOUN
sticky substance
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When the ROV returns, there is an excited dash for the samples including seawater, sediment and a forearm-length sea lily coated with dripping orange goo.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

But it’s taken years to study him and clean off his sticky goo, a naturally occurring asphalt mixture of sand, gravel, clay and crude oil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The problem, though, is that the brick-coloured goo, which is dried into a powder, looks distinctly unappetising – even less appetising than the freeze-dried fare that astronauts currently have to put up with.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

Not even the famed Hollywood Walk of Fame stars were immune to the rainbow-hued goo.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2024

Defenseless even against her own thoughts, which told her that the walls were clammy with goo.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord