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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

Trefry likened this awkward time of life to the stage in a butterfly’s development when a caterpillar disappears inside a chrysalis and dissolves into goo before reforming into something entirely new.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025

Forte says as blueberry goo oozes out of his pastry.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025

It cracked open, and a yellow-orange glob suspended in a thick clear goo oozed out.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth




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