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gee-gees

gee-gees is the plural of gee-gee.

Meaning of gee-gee

Noun

gee-gee (plural gee-gees)

  1. (childish, colloquial, usually) A horse.
    • [W]hen great Aunt Ryder was exhausted with carrying her little nephews pick-a-back, Aunt Ellen was always willing to become a ‘gee-gee’ or riding-horse in her place, although certainly one of no very prancing and fiery temperament.1860 April 14, “The Bateman Household, and What Became of Them”, in William, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts, volume XIII, number 328, London: W. &...
    Synonyms:
    horsey, horsie, horsy

Noun

gee-gees

  1. (UK, plural, plural-only, slang, usually) horse racing.
    • He lost all his money on the gee-gees.
    • DYSART: You won't gallop any more, Alan. Horses will be quite safe. You'll save your pennies every week, till you can change that scooter in for a car, and put the odd 50p on the gee-gees, quite forgetting that they were ever anything more to you than bearers of little profits and little losses.1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 35”, in Equus, page 109

Questions about gee-gees

What does gee-gees mean?
Gee-gees means horse racing.
What is gee-gees the plural of?
Gee-gees is the plural of gee-gee.
What part of speech is gee-gees?
Gee-gees is a noun.

Words near gee-gees in the dictionary

  1. gee willikers
  2. gee-eyed
  3. gee-gaw
  4. gee-gaws
  5. gee-gee
  6. gee-gees
  7. gee-whizzery
  8. geebag
  9. geebags
  10. geebong
  11. geebongs

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