goon

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A thug

   A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence.

2. 2

   A hired and paid person who is assigned to terrorize and kill opponents.

3. 3

   A fool

   A fool; someone who is silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.

   • Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
   • Sending for the goon who sent for me / He's thinking he's hard, yeah, it's Little T
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   1. 4

      An enforcer or fighter.

      • […]a scout from the Flames came down from Saskatoon, said, "There's always room on our team for a goon"
   2. 5

      A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.

   3. 6

      One hired to legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding…

      One hired to legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.

   4. 7

      Box wine.

   5. 8

      A member of the comedy website Something Awful.

   6. 9

      To act like a goon

      To act like a goon; to act in an intimidating or aggressive way towards opponents.

      • In the mid-week game against the Czech republic, the Czech team speared, slashed, tripped, gooned, and in more cases than I recall, crosschecked Canadian players in the teeth.
      • Imagine losing to a team that gooned it up and attempted to take out your best players with heavy hits?
      • Obviously, we wanted to kill Kozlov. We thought it was the dirtiest thing in the world. Things picked up after that. We were out for blood after that. We didn't goon them. They gooned us, really, and we just had to respond.
   7. 10

      To legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school,…

      To legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.

      • Some described being "gooned" in the middle of the night by strongmen hired by their family to forcibly transport them to camp.
      • He was soon bungled out of the Patterson family’s California home and into a taxi on the way to the airport. He was being "gooned" - forcibly transported to a place aimed at correcting naughty children's behaviour.
   8. 11

      To masturbate for long periods of time without reaching a climax.

      • Dirt bike riding is the pursuit of skill and technique in a challenging environment. To me, its not about gooning before friends to be the baddest one on the block. Leave that for other stuff.
      • Surfing meaning to surf decently most normal surfspots in the world, no gooning out.
      • If I'm watching a game from home (instead of a get-together or a bar), I've usually got Trillian fired up, and am gooning and being gooned by others doing the same thing I'm doing as a game progresses.
   9. 12

      A wine flagon or cask.

      • We drank goons of cheap wine.
   10. 13

       Cheap or inferior cask wine.

       • ‘On the night of our school graduation he stole a flagon of goon wine and disappeared into the woods. The police found him the next day asleep on the creek.[…]’
       • Red wine was consumed largely by posh folk, white wine meant goon, mention of a Jägerbomb would have sent its father ducking for cover, and ‘sex on the beach’ meant just that.
   11. 14

       A Sino-Japanese kanji pronunciation layer, considered the first Sino-Japanese kanji…

       A Sino-Japanese kanji pronunciation layer, considered the first Sino-Japanese kanji reading type used in Japan.

       • The Buddhist term 権化 is read as gonge, using the kanji's goon readings.
   12. 15

       A surname.

   13. 16

       Alternative letter-case form of goon (“a member of the comedy web site Something Awful”).

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