goatse
/ˈɡoʊt.si/
goatse proper noun: a notorious shock image of a man displaying his unnaturally dilated anus.
Proper noun
goatse
- 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 […]2008, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, Chris Anderson, page 182
- Sometimes communities are founded specifically around the images — Facebook has a Goatse appreciation group at the time of writing […]2010, Porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography, Feona Attwood, page 136
Verb
goatse (third-person singular simple present goatses, present participle goatseing, simple past and past participle goatsed)
- To trick (a person) into viewing the image.
- To exhibit one's anus to (a person) in a similar manner to the image.
- I love goatseing people... :)2001 June 21, Lianna Skywalker <liannaskywalker@hotmail.com>, “David Miscavige unveils his new Scientology promotion”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the...
Examples of goatse in a sentence
- Specifically, 47 seconds in, the message: "For anyone that doesn't know what goatse is, check it out here, it's really eye-opening:"2011, The Register (newspaper), "Scottish TV news pumps goatse link", John Oates
- For many, the experience of Internet shock sites began with goatse, a notoriously repulsive image that is considered the king of shock sites.2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, page 100:
Forms of goatse
| third-person singular present | goatses |
|---|---|
| present participle | goatseing |
| past participle | goatsed |
| past | goatsed |
Origin of goatse
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.
Questions about goatse
- What does goatse mean?
- Goatse means a notorious shock image of a man displaying his unnaturally dilated anus.
- How do you use goatse in a sentence?
- Specifically, 47 seconds in, the message: "For anyone that doesn't know what goatse is, check it out here, it's really eye-opening:"
- What part of speech is goatse?
- Goatse can be a proper noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce goatse?
- Goatse is pronounced /ˈɡoʊt.si/ (US).
Words near goatse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: goatse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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