Thesaurus results for GALOOTS

galoots

noun

plural of galoot, slang

as in guys

an adult male human being he's a bighearted galoot, even if he's not the sharpest tool in the shed

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Recent Examples of galoots Phillies fans still love their collection of scruffy galoots. — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 15 July 2026 The pair come off less as cybercriminal masterminds than as galumphing galoots—that is to say, a pair of bumbling oafs who thought that asking AI how to cover their tracks was going to keep them out of federal prison. — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2026 These handsome galoots may cheat on their spouses or worse, but this allows the women to smolder in drifting chiffon. — Libby Gelman-Waxner, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2026

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Noun

This is a season so overwhelmingly dull that it’s taken three different gay guys to recap it.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2 manga laid the groundwork for some of the genre's most enduring tropes (gender switching, horny old guys, tournaments), and this is the second anime adaptation, this time from Studio MAPPA.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of guys

Noun

National polling consistently shows that between 75-80% of voting Americans oppose biological males competing in women’s sports.

— Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
The suspects are described as Black males between the ages of 16 and 20 with a thin to medium build who were wearing all black clothing, ski masks and red gloves with black palms, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of males

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the decidedly forgettable experience of falling for a phishing scam—or in this case, the simulation of one.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what’s known in the editing bay as foreshadowing.

— Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of gentlemen

Noun

While Star Wars might be known for laser swords and space wizards, it's always been about weird little dudes doing even weirder things.

— Hayes Madsen, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Even as Swift shines in the light of holy matrimony, there are still plenty of lame dudes out there for Taylor to crush across three-minute pop masterstrokes — and, God-willing, there always will be.

— Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026

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