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- Dictionarygoon/ɡuːn/
noun
- 1. a stupid, foolish, or eccentric person: "I don't want to deal with Jack today, he's such a goon"
- 2. a violent, aggressive person who is hired to intimidate or harm people: North American "he hired goons to hunt down supporters"
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a. : to continue on or as if on a journey. life goes on. went on to greater things. b. : to keep on : continue. went on smoking. c. : proceed. went on to win the election. 2. : to take place : happen. what's going on.
GOON definition: 1. a violent criminal who is paid to hurt or threaten people 2. a silly or stupid person 3. cheap…. Learn more.
noun. a stupid or deliberately foolish person. informal. a thug hired to commit acts of violence or intimidation, esp in an industrial dispute. “Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012.
goon. (guːn ) Word forms: plural goons. 1. countable noun. A goon is a person who is paid to hurt or threaten people. [US, informal] He and the other goon began to beat me up. 2. countable noun. If you call someone a goon, you think they behave in a silly way.
A goon is a person with a heavy touch as distinguished from a jigger, who has a light touch. While jiggers look on life with a genial eye, goons take a more stolid and literal view. F. L. Allen in Harper's Magazine December 121/2. 1938.
1. a stupid or deliberately foolish person. 2. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) informal US a thug hired to commit acts of violence or intimidation, esp in an industrial dispute. [C20: partly from dialect gooney fool, partly after the character Alice the Goon, created by E. C. Segar (1894–1938), American cartoonist] goon. n.
Definitions of goon. noun. an awkward, foolish person. synonyms: ape, clod, gawk, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, nimrod, oaf, stumblebum. see more. see less. type of: clumsy person. a person with poor motor coordination.
Definition of goon noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
goon meaning, definition, what is goon: a silly or stupid person: Learn more.
Goon Definition. A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon'). (ice hockey, pejorative) An enforcer or fighter. (Australia, countable, informal) A wine flagon or cask.
