Goatse

//ˈɡoʊt.si// name, verb

name, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To trick (a person) into viewing the image. Internet
  2. 2
    To exhibit one's anus to (a person) in a similar manner to the image. Internet, transitive

    "I love goatseing people... :)"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A notorious shock image of a man displaying his unnaturally dilated anus. Internet

    "I thought everyone knew about GOATSE, but I was wrong. […] And knowing about GOATSE appears to be one of its secret membership codes, which is what Anil was demonstrating when he cheekily wore the word on his T-shirt […]"

Example

More examples

"I thought everyone knew about GOATSE, but I was wrong. […] And knowing about GOATSE appears to be one of its secret membership codes, which is what Anil was demonstrating when he cheekily wore the word on his T-shirt […]"

Etymology

From the name of a now defunct website which first published the image, namely goatse.cx, which used the top-level domain code .cx, reserved for Christmas Island, because an attempt by an English speaker to say the website's full name would result in a string of phonemes sounding like goat sex.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.