1.To scoop out with a gouge.
2.To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. (K S.) Note: A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States.
3.To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. (Slang, U. S.)