He said the gougers were relatively few in number, "maybe two to three hundred bad actors among 11,000 systems."

Small size was an advantage to the little gougers.

During his campaign, the vice president has relentlessly attacked the companies as price gougers.

The politicians call the companies pirates and price gougers.

"The idea that the energy gougers would have to pay to reduce the demand for energy is great."

"They didn't want to be viewed as price gougers."

He voted for tax relief for working families and to punish gas gougers.

And because the number of suspected gougers would be small, the commission could determine whether their costs justified their prices.

Gougers work for love of the stuff.

And besides, the royal tax gougers take a thirty percent rake-off."

Yesterday's low-fare operators can become today's moderate-fare providers or tomorrow's price gougers.

There are numerous bone tools (hoes, scrapers, points and gougers).

The American public felt the government was rescuing them from price gougers and from a foreign-caused exchange crisis.

But some 'mouths' can have their 'deviance amplified'(Young 1971) in order for it to come within the conduct expected of gougers.

In short, gougers are life's losers.

Through remarks like these the police were normalizing the behaviour to distinguish it from that which cam be expected from gougers.

"They're the worst gougers there are."

Criminals and other trouble-makers are referred to widely as 'gougers': 'there are basically two types of people.

Say I was dealing with one of our gougers, I come down to [his]level.

A subcategory of gougers are 'mouths': young people who 'give lip', primarily as a result of drink.

It was not much more than a sandstone hill, miles from anywhere, in which men called gougers dig holes in the ground looking for opal.

Thus, for example, gougers are gougers and need to be watched wherever they are.

The new commercials adopt much of the Administration's campaign language, criticizing insurance companies as price gougers and emphasizing the plan's commitment to providing "affordable private insurance."

There were price gougers and good Samaritans, looters and citizen patrols, whiners and volunteers.