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noun ɡuːnɡun informal 1A silly, foolish, or eccentric person. Example sentencesExamples - A CD disc changer has replaced the DJ tonight and the local musicians who made up a large part of the clientele have been replaced by college goons slurping up their student loans.
- We got her all established, then sat around for at least forty-five minutes like the goons we are, grinning and commenting on her every action.
- I enjoyed these comparisons, and chuckled heartily at the thought of all the pasty faced goons queuing for minging breakfast rolls along the M50.
- I attribute the successes of the show to the bassist and the saxophonist, and the failures to the two goons behind the laptops.
- Yet the sun starved goons are still sitting out, shivering, trying to drain the last goodness from the day and avoid facing up to the fact that they have an exam in the morning.
Synonyms idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod 2North American A bully or thug, especially a member of an armed or security force. a squad of goons waving pistols Example sentencesExamples - Squads of goons roamed the area in buses cutting down the banners and decorations.
- While supervisors looked on a gang of goons attacked and beat union organizers, forcing them to sign documents that they were quitting their jobs.
- A network built upon trust and cooperation comes crashing down when thugs and goons roll through the neighborhood.
- ‘Their place is going to be crawling with bodyguards and other low-life goons,’ he mumbled.
- The goons, armed with slingshots, nuts, bolts and ball bearings, wounded over thirty of the leftists.
- But there was another tension on the back of my mind that whether I should be taking the same route while returning as there was every possibility of my teammates being detained or attacked by the local goons.
- Mean Mike saunters over to the security perimeter set up by security goons.
- The police should have at least stopped the people being thrown out, especially if it was done with the use of dogs and goons.
- Once the goons (like Bromell) have us by the throat, there'll be very little room to manoeuvre (it's tough when one is in handcuffs).
- When we mouth off or botch it, they see us as the Dalton Boys, bullying goons who never learn.
- There were at least seventeen armed goons, not to mention the three snipers on the roof.
- He had fought goons, he had hospitalized thieves, he had beaten the best fighters in the world but he had never gone up against anything like these fiends of horror.
- A large and final wave of goons comes on at the guards from all sides.
- The decade of the 1980s and early 1990s saw the almost routine use of company-paid goons, uniformed and armed, in labor struggles.
- Mobbed wherever she goes and forced to travel everywhere with a squad of security goons, on one occasion the California Highway Patrol had to close an entire section of freeway to let her car escape pursuing fans.
- It sounded great, so I did chase her and got really hurt by a security goon.
- He had two goons trailing behind him; his personal body thugs.
- Obviously threatened by our tenacity, the owner called his goons, five men, and grabbed my friend (a woman) as she approached the counter with another question.
- Even murderous goons and heartless goombahs were stirred to noble deeds.
- After expelling the reporters, the goons vandalized the newspaper's equipment.
Synonyms thug, roughneck, scoundrel, villain, rogue, rascal, lout, hooligan, hoodlum, vandal, delinquent, rowdy, bully boy, bully, brute 3British A guard in a German prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War.
Origin Mid 19th century: perhaps from dialect gooney 'booby'; influenced by the subhuman cartoon character 'Alice the Goon', created by E. C. Segar (1894–1938), American cartoonist. To most people a goon is associated with the creators of the radio comedy series The Goon Show in 1951. The original sense of the word was ‘a stupid or hapless person’—it came from the name of the US cartoon character Alice the Goon, created by the cartoonist E. C. Segar (1894–1938) and appearing in the Popeye strips that also introduced Eugene the Jeep (see Jeep). Segar probably took the name from the dialect term gooney ‘a simpleton’, recorded from the 1580s. In the USA a goon also became a thug hired to terrorize people, and in the Second World War the term was given by British and US prisoners of war to their German guards.
Rhymes afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon nounɡuːnɡun mass nounAustralian informal Cheap wine, especially when sold in large cartons. we sat in the kitchen drinking the rest of the goon Example sentencesExamples - We left her staring at the glass of goon in her hands.
- In the early hours of the morning, the goon ran out.
- Pass me the goon, now.
- He's a full-time goon drinker.
- There followed card games accompanied by a few mugs of goon.
Origin 1980s: probably an alteration of flagon, possibly influenced by goom. nounɡo͞onɡun informal 1A silly, foolish, or eccentric person. Example sentencesExamples - A CD disc changer has replaced the DJ tonight and the local musicians who made up a large part of the clientele have been replaced by college goons slurping up their student loans.
- I attribute the successes of the show to the bassist and the saxophonist, and the failures to the two goons behind the laptops.
- I enjoyed these comparisons, and chuckled heartily at the thought of all the pasty faced goons queuing for minging breakfast rolls along the M50.
- We got her all established, then sat around for at least forty-five minutes like the goons we are, grinning and commenting on her every action.
- Yet the sun starved goons are still sitting out, shivering, trying to drain the last goodness from the day and avoid facing up to the fact that they have an exam in the morning.
Synonyms idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod 2North American A bully or thug, especially one hired to terrorize or do away with opposition. a squad of goons waving pistols Example sentencesExamples - The police should have at least stopped the people being thrown out, especially if it was done with the use of dogs and goons.
- Once the goons (like Bromell) have us by the throat, there'll be very little room to manoeuvre (it's tough when one is in handcuffs).
- There were at least seventeen armed goons, not to mention the three snipers on the roof.
- ‘Their place is going to be crawling with bodyguards and other low-life goons,’ he mumbled.
- Squads of goons roamed the area in buses cutting down the banners and decorations.
- Obviously threatened by our tenacity, the owner called his goons, five men, and grabbed my friend (a woman) as she approached the counter with another question.
- After expelling the reporters, the goons vandalized the newspaper's equipment.
- When we mouth off or botch it, they see us as the Dalton Boys, bullying goons who never learn.
- A network built upon trust and cooperation comes crashing down when thugs and goons roll through the neighborhood.
- He had two goons trailing behind him; his personal body thugs.
- While supervisors looked on a gang of goons attacked and beat union organizers, forcing them to sign documents that they were quitting their jobs.
- A large and final wave of goons comes on at the guards from all sides.
- But there was another tension on the back of my mind that whether I should be taking the same route while returning as there was every possibility of my teammates being detained or attacked by the local goons.
- Mean Mike saunters over to the security perimeter set up by security goons.
- Even murderous goons and heartless goombahs were stirred to noble deeds.
- The goons, armed with slingshots, nuts, bolts and ball bearings, wounded over thirty of the leftists.
- He had fought goons, he had hospitalized thieves, he had beaten the best fighters in the world but he had never gone up against anything like these fiends of horror.
- The decade of the 1980s and early 1990s saw the almost routine use of company-paid goons, uniformed and armed, in labor struggles.
- It sounded great, so I did chase her and got really hurt by a security goon.
- Mobbed wherever she goes and forced to travel everywhere with a squad of security goons, on one occasion the California Highway Patrol had to close an entire section of freeway to let her car escape pursuing fans.
Synonyms thug, roughneck, scoundrel, villain, rogue, rascal, lout, hooligan, hoodlum, vandal, delinquent, rowdy, bully boy, bully, brute
Origin Mid 19th century: perhaps from dialect gooney ‘booby’; influenced by the subhuman cartoon character ‘Alice the Goon’, created by E. C. Segar (1894–1938), American cartoonist. nounɡo͞onɡun Australian informal Cheap wine, especially when sold in large cartons. we sat in the kitchen drinking the rest of the goon Example sentencesExamples - We left her staring at the glass of goon in her hands.
- He's a full-time goon drinker.
- Pass me the goon, now.
- In the early hours of the morning, the goon ran out.
- There followed card games accompanied by a few mugs of goon.
Origin 1980s: probably an alteration of flagon, possibly influenced by goom. |