# goods

Pronunciation: say "GUUDZ" /ɡʊdz/

## Noun

1. Items that are produced, then traded, bought or sold, and finally consumed by users.
   - Simple: Things that are made, then bought and sold, and finally used by people.
   - _Manufactured goods accounted for most of the country's exports last year._
   - _Consumers pay sales tax on most goods they purchase._
2. The movable possessions that belong to someone, such as furniture, clothing, or tools.
   - Simple: The things you own that can be moved, like your clothes and furniture.
   - _In her will she left all her household goods to her niece._
   - _He gave away his worldly goods and moved into a one-room cabin in the woods._
3. Cargo carried by a transport service, as distinct from passengers. *(UK)*
   - Simple: Items that trains, trucks, or ships carry instead of people.
   - _The depot handles goods bound for ports across the country._
   - _British railways once moved vast quantities of goods overnight to the cities._
4. Something genuine, important, or revealing, especially evidence of wrongdoing or the ability or results expected. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: The real thing: proof that someone or something is genuine or truly able.
   - _After months of digging through old records, the reporter finally had the goods on the city's crooked contractor._
   - _The rookie quarterback clearly has talent, but he still has to deliver the goods in a big game._
5. Plural of good. — plural of good
   - Simple: Plural of good. Use this form when talking about more than one benefit or good thing.
   - _Philosophers debate which goods are worth pursuing for their own sake._
   - _Liberty and justice are among the goods a society should protect._
6. Ellipsis of goods train. British: a freight train. *(UK)* — Ellipsis of goods train.
   - Simple: Ellipsis of goods train. In British English, a train that carries cargo, not people.
   - _The morning goods carried coal from the colliery down to the port._
   - _We waited at the level crossing while a long goods rumbled past, its wagons heaped with coal._
7. A person or animal, considered with reference to their characteristics or qualities. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A person or animal thought about in terms of their qualities.
   - _The breeder insisted the mare was sound, but buyers who had heard about her old injury treated her as damaged goods._
   - _Several clubs wrote the pitcher off as damaged goods after his elbow surgery, but one team still offered him a contract._
8. The female body, particularly when regarded as sexually attractive. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A woman's body, especially when seen as attractive.
   - _Her dress was cut to show off the goods, and she knew every head in the room would turn._
   - _He made a crude comment about her goods, and the women at the bar turned their backs on him._
9. The male genitals. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A man's private parts, especially the genitals.
   - _The batsman doubled over after the ball struck him squarely in the goods._
   - _He flinched at the memory of taking a soccer ball to the goods in gym class._

## Other meanings

- (verb) Third-person singular simple present indicative of good. Dialectal.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/goods (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).