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plural gobies also goby
: any of numerous spiny-finned fishes (family Gobiidae) that usually have the pelvic fins united to form a ventral sucking disk
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Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Researchers said the single specimen may represent a new cryptic species of Ward’s sleeper goby.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
And, eventually, so many symptom-free years had gone by that my diagnosis began to seem like just one more zany tale from my careening twenties.
—Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Today, the Erie Canal remains vulnerable to invasive plants, such as water chestnut and hydrilla, and invasive animals such as round goby.
—Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Researchers said the single specimen may represent a new cryptic species of Ward’s sleeper goby.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
As the minutes went by, those whistles became less and less frequent as Sunderland settled.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
And, eventually, so many symptom-free years had gone by that my diagnosis began to seem like just one more zany tale from my careening twenties.
—Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Goby.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goby. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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goby
noun
go·by
ˈgō-bē 
plural gobies also goby
: any of numerous spiny-finned fishes that often have the pelvic fins united to form a sucking disk
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