I. gəˈlüt, usu -üd.+V noun
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Etymology: origin unknown
: ross's goose
II. noun
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Etymology: origin unknown
slang : fellow , person ; especially : a man who is strange, odd, or foolish
such a simpleminded, honest kind of galoot — Robert Lowry
till that crazy galoot … caught up with me — Earle Birney
a man of any size feels like a galoot in that tomfool outfit — Jean Stafford
tell me to my face that I'm a galoot … and a hick — Sinclair Lewis