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Food, by perodicticus
the catch-all, by rolig
Newsweek, by chained_bear
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A mixture of high-energy foods, such as nuts and dried fruit, eaten as a snack. Origin by acronym for "Good Old Raisins and Peanuts". (From WordCraft)
"She was still a puppy at the time ... the quintessential Alaskan mutt. Before we could break out the dog biscuits and gorp, there was a sudden release of the tremendous compressed energy that the ... glacier had exerted on the lake ice...."
--Tom Yeager, "Marking Time With a Glacier," Newsweek, May 12, 2008, 17.