Word of the Week: Goosed

From UrbanDictionary.com Goosed is old school slang for fucked, coming from the rhyming slang Goose and Duck.

We have been using this term the past few days during major disruption on the railway. If control decide to not run a train due to crew displacement, broken down train (fault), or due to congestion, it is goosed!

Further down the definitions listing UrbanDictionary also lists it as The unfortunate act of failing to eject correctly from your fighter jet by hitting the canopy; resulting in death.

Yes, a Top Gun reference to the scene where Maverick’s (Tom Cruise) navigator Goose (Anthony Edwards) was killed when their F-14 jet engines stalled sending them into an uncontrollable flat spin, and Goose hit his head on the canopy when ejecting. Ouch!

Even now, just the music in the following scenes bring a tear to my eye!