goon
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(gūn) 
n. Slang
n. Slang
- A thug hired to intimidate or harm opponents.
- A stupid or oafish person.
[Probably ultimately short for GOONEY, simpleton.]
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1. n. a stupid person; a fool. Todd is a silly goon, but he's a lot of fun at parties.
2. n. a hooligan; a thug or bodyguard. (Underworld.) Call off your goons!
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noun, orig US
1: A foolish or dull person. (1921 —) .
S. Clark There, you goon. You'll bump into them if you don't watch out (1959).
2:orig US A person hired by racketeers, etc. to terrorize political or industrial opponents; a thug. (1938 —) .
It Heath orders Habershon of Barnet CID to 'turn London over'. And he does exactly that...with 500 goons and a score of specially trained dogs (1971).
3: A nickname given by British and US prisoners of war to their German guards during World War II. (1945 —) .
Times 'Goon-baiting', which was the favourite occupation of the prisoners (1962).
[Perh. from dialect gooneynoun , simpleton; influenced by the subhuman cartoon character called Alice the Goon created by E. C. Segar ((1894 — 1938)), American cartoonist.]
noun, orig US
1: A foolish or dull person. (1921 —) .
S. Clark There, you goon. You'll bump into them if you don't watch out (1959).
2:
It Heath orders Habershon of Barnet CID to 'turn London over'. And he does exactly that...with 500 goons and a score of specially trained dogs (1971).
3: A nickname given by British and US prisoners of war to their German guards during World War II. (1945 —) .
Times 'Goon-baiting', which was the favourite occupation of the prisoners (1962).
[Perh. from dialect gooney
| goombah, goom, goolies | |
| goop, goorie, goose |
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A goon is someone that is employed as someone's personal enforcer, such as either a personal bodyguard or a ruffian who is kept on staff to intimidate or batter people. Goon may also refer to:
- A performer in The Goon Show
- A guard in a prisoner of war camp - (British World War II usage)
- Alice the Goon, character in the Popeye comic strip
- Barney Irwin, wrestler briefly known as "The Goon"
- Enforcer (hockey), also known as a goon
- Goon (album), a 1996 release by Global Goon
- Goon (film), a 2011 comedy film starring Sean William Scott
- The Goon, comic book series created by Eric Powell
- A member of the Something Awful community
- Another name for the character in the Kilroy was here graffiti
- Australian/New Zealand slang word for cheap box wine, particularly common amongst Australian students
- GOONs, Guardians of the Oglala Nation, private paramilitary group active on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during the early 1970s
- GOONS, an acronym for the Guild of One-Name Studies
- PC Goon, character in Enid Blyton's The Five Find-Outers series of children's books
See also
- Go-on, a possible way of reading certain Japanese Kanji
- Goon Squad (disambiguation)
- Gune, a gnome-like character from the film Titan A.E.
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Goon
Dansk (Danish)
n. - stort brød, ubegavet fyr
Nederlands (Dutch)
sufferd, huurmoordenaar
Français (French)
n. - homme de main (péj)
Deutsch (German)
n. - gedungener Schläger, Dummkopf
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χαζούλης, (καθομ.) μπράβος, εγκάθετος
Italiano (Italian)
babbeo, gorilla
Português (Portuguese)
n. - capanga (m) (esp. para dispersar grevistas), pessoa estúpida (f)
Русский (Russian)
громила, наемный хулиган
Español (Spanish)
n. - tonto, mentecato, terrorista pagado, guardaespaldas, esbirro
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - idiot, tråkmåns, våp, torped
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
受雇暴徒, 呆子, 愚笨者
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 受雇暴徒, 呆子, 愚笨者
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ならず者, 暴力団員, まぬけ
adj. - ナチスドイツの
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) شخص ابله, شخص يستأجر لترويع الآخرين
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - טיפש, בריון שכיר
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