goatse

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɡoʊt.si/ (US)

Definition of goatse

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (Internet)A notorious shock image of a man displaying his unnaturally dilated anus.
    “I thought everyone knew about GOATSE, but I was wrong. […] And knowing about GOATSE appears to be one of its secret membership codes, which is what Anil was demonstrating when he cheekily wore the word on his T-shirt […]”
    “Sometimes communities are founded specifically around the images — Facebook has a Goatse appreciation group at the time of writing […]”
    “So they resorted to close-ups of LulzSec's Twitter feed. Specifically, 47 seconds in, the message: "For anyone that doesn't know what goatse is, check it out here, it's really eye-opening:"”
    “For many, the experience of Internet shock sites began with goatse, a notoriously repulsive image that is considered the king of shock sites.”
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name

  1. (Internet)A notorious shock image of a man displaying his unnaturally dilated anus.
    “I thought everyone knew about GOATSE, but I was wrong. […] And knowing about GOATSE appears to be one of its secret membership codes, which is what Anil was demonstrating when he cheekily wore the word on his T-shirt […]”
    “Sometimes communities are founded specifically around the images — Facebook has a Goatse appreciation group at the time of writing […]”
    “So they resorted to close-ups of LulzSec's Twitter feed. Specifically, 47 seconds in, the message: "For anyone that doesn't know what goatse is, check it out here, it's really eye-opening:"”
    “For many, the experience of Internet shock sites began with goatse, a notoriously repulsive image that is considered the king of shock sites.”

verb

  1. (Internet)To trick (a person) into viewing the image.
  2. (Internet, transitive)To exhibit one's anus to (a person) in a similar manner to the image.
    “I love goatseing people... :)”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From the name of a now defunct website which first published the image, namely goatse.cx, which used the top-level domain code .cx, reserved for Christmas Island, because an attempt by an English speaker to say the website's full name would result in a string of phonemes sounding like goat sex.

Anagrams of goatse

3 plays · some not in Scrabble

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