The word 'gouger' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used as a noun to reference someone who engages in unethical or dishonest practices for personal gain, often in regards to money. Example: The CEO was known to be a ruthless gouger, often exploiting his employees and customers for his own financial benefit.
Now they are here, paying gouger prices for hotels, and being told, uhh, never mind.
"I am an egg gouger," she acknowledges.
Ms. Kinsey said that in one instance a price gouger simply took advantage of anxiety and fear that there was no ice to be had.
"The biggest price gouger in Connecticut is state government," said Michael J. Fox, the executive director of the Gasoline Automobile Service Dealers of America, which represents about 450 gas station owners across Connecticut.
Adelaide's indoor Central Market on Gouger Street is neither as self-consciously gourmet or prettified as Melbourne's celebrated food halls, but it still has serious produce with speciality stalls like Piroshki Russian food, kangaroo meat done every which way and Lucia's, the city's oldest Italian cafe, which has been turning out classic dishes since 1957.
In the heart of Adelaide's Chinatown district, looking out over Gouger Street, BBQ City's window display of crispy-skin ducks and barbecue ribs lives up to the restaurant' name.
Some had their eyes gouged out, others had flayed or badly bleeding skin.
Next day the 23-year-old visited the mortuary, where he identified a third murdered student whose body was found a few blocks away, his face skinned and his eyes gouged out.
The robbers seized pedestrians and motorists and beat them senseless, telling them they would be shot, have their throats slit, eyes gouged out or be burned alive if they did not comply with their assailants' demands.
Sarah Kane's Blasted picked up the challenge of bringing the horrors of a war zone into a domestic setting, though most critics were initially squeamish and dismissive of Titus-like scenes of incestuous rape, eye-gouging and baby-burial under the floorboards.
As one of the stars of Utopia, the Channel 4 British conspiracy thriller written by Dennis Kelly, Akhtar had to cope with playing a character who has his eye gouged out and his father murdered within the first two episodes.
