goon

(go͞on)

n. Slang

1. A thug hired to intimidate or harm opponents.

2. A stupid or oafish person.

[Probably ultimately short for gooney, simpleton.]

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goon

(ɡuːn)

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

(Brewing) informal Austral cheap wine packaged in casks or boxed

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goon

(gun)

n.

1. a hired hoodlum or thug.

2. Informal. a stupid, foolish, or awkward person.

[1920–25; shortened from dial. gooney, variant of obsolete gony a simpleton (of obscure orig.)]

goon′y, adj. -i•er, -i•est.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	goon - an awkward stupid person gawk, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, stumblebum, clod, lump clumsy person - a person with poor motor coordination
	2.	goon - an aggressive and violent young criminal hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie, tough bully - a hired thug criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

goon

noun

Slang. A person who treats others violently and roughly, especially for hire:

hoodlum, ruffian, thug, tough.

Informal: hooligan.

Slang: gorilla, hood.

Translations

goon

gorilla sicario

goon

[guːn] N

1. (= fool) → imbécil mf

2. (US) (= thug) → gorila m, matón/ona m/f (Hist) gorila contratado para sembrar el terror entre los obreros

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goon

(inf: = idiot) → Idiot m, → Dussel m (inf)

(US inf: = hired thug) → Schlägertyp m (inf)

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"Noo ye're married to her, there's her bonnets and goons and under-clothin'--her ribbons, laces, furbelows, and fallals.

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"The family of the victim revealed that a local goon was pressuring her to marry.

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Under such circumstances, any goon with a gun can simply wave an official looking document around and thump his chest about some 'secret mission' that no one would have the means to quickly validate.

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Smith, a police officer and assistant hockey coach, and Frattasio, an adult education teacher and author, offer a memoir of SmithAEs experiences as a minor league hockey player, whose primary role was to protect and promote the confidence of less physical, more talented teammates in response to abuse from opposing teams, as a protector, enforcer, or ogoon.o He played for seven teams from 1988 to 1998, getting more that 400 minutes of penalty time during his career for these fights, and the memoir was turned into two movies, GOON and GOON 2: Last of the Enforcers, described in the final chapter.

Goon: Memoir of a Minor League Hockey Enforcer, 2nd Edition

This real-life collection of muppets and goons, who haven't signed off a set of accounts in almost 40 years, have within a few weeks of the UK triggering Article 50 presented us with a demand requesting PS100billion as part of our Brexit deal.

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Mr Goon, who will leave in August, has held his position at Business Durham for the last four years, overseeing the growth of the NetPark science site at Sedgefield, as well as developing employment sites elsewhere in the county.

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On December 14, 1915, federal agents and Portland police placed Sam Goon's laundry under surveillance as a result of information alleging opium use there.

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Born in 1952 - after Michael Bentine left the line-up, prompting a change from original name Crazy People - The Goon Show (or The Go On Show, as one befuddled BBC exec called it) ran for 243 episodes, before bowing out in January 1960.

Goon... but not forgotten; FEATURE They influenced Monty Python , Eddie Izzard called them the godfathers of modern comedy and Prince Charles even name checked them in his investiture speech. Now, 55 years on from their last studio recording, Nathan Bevan examines the legacy of The Goons

He also helped Milligan who became so ill at one point in the early Goon days that he was hospitalised.

Gooning around with Dad; When Andy Secombe was young, he had no idea that his father Harry was a household name as one of the Goons. And that's because the Secombes worked hard at having a loving, close and normal family life. But what was it like for other Goon children? Andy tells Abbie Wightwick why he just had to find out