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goon
  1. A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
  2. A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
  3. (ice hockey, pejorative)  An enforcer or fighter.
  4. (Britain, WWII, PoW slang) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
  5. (Internet slang) A member of the comedy web site Something Awful.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “It's just a ruse so Al can discover which goon from the mob has a problem with his new life and wants him dead.”
      “He wasn't only a sleazy, unintelligent goon, but he was also a slob who only made the sheriff's department look bad.”
      “It sounded great, so I did chase her and got really hurt by a security goon.”
gooney
  1. Any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes) and the Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis), that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
  2. (slang) a foolish, silly or awkward person or thing; a goon.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “They were once commonly known as goonie birds or gooney birds, particularly those of the North Pacific.”
      “The site of an important naval battle during World War II, the islands are now home to gooney birds, monk seals, and Hawaiian green sea turtles.”
      “Sandy projects an effectively irritating edge in the first act and goes gooney with love in the second.”
goonie
  1. Any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes) and the Laysan albatross, that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
  2. (slang) a foolish, silly, or awkward person or thing; a goon.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Ignore the tears, don't mention the pink goonie and just guide me to the aisle that stocks the shiny new mojos.”
      “While his colleagues went back to work at Holyrood, the cowardly thug did some early-morning DIY dressed in his jammies, goonie and baffies.”
      “All it took was for Gail to still be in her goonie when he called round and he was in like Flynn.”
goony
  1. (informal) a goon; a foolish, stupid, silly, or awkward person.
  2. Alternate form of gooney (gooney bird, the black-footed albatross).
goon
  1. (Australia, countable, informal) A wine flagon or cask.
  2. (Australia, uncountable, informal) Cheap or inferior cask wine.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It's just a ruse so Al can discover which goon from the mob has a problem with his new life and wants him dead.”
      “He wasn't only a sleazy, unintelligent goon, but he was also a slob who only made the sheriff's department look bad.”
      “It sounded great, so I did chase her and got really hurt by a security goon.”
goonishness
  1. The quality of being goonish.
goonies
  1. plural of goonie
  2. plural of gooney
  3. Examples:
    1. “Seagulls and goonies had followed in the wake of our ship, and rested themselves each day aloft in the rigging.”
      “I want to know when someone is going to make another movie like The goonies.”
      “A look at Fight Club, goonies, and more infamous urinations on the big screen.”
gooneys
  1. plural of gooney
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Our boys in WWII had a whole lot more Simon pure manhood than that one-nut pervert and his goose-stepping loony gooneys.”
goons
  1. plural of goon
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I attribute the successes of the show to the bassist and the saxophonist, and the failures to the two goons behind the laptops.”
      “A network built upon trust and cooperation comes crashing down when thugs and goons roll through the neighborhood.”
      “No point in making an issue of it and unleashing their goons on the media and on individuals who point fingers at them.”
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