goner
/ˈɡɒnə
/noun informal
A person or thing that is doomed or cannot be saved: Robert would have been a goner if I hadn’t got there when I did I thought I was a goner...
- Just when she thought she was a goner, someone had saved her from yet another bullet wound.
- ‘If it had happened at night, we would have all been goners,’ he said.
- My goodness me, one more boat load and we were goners!
