Definition of goon
1 : a stupid person
2a : a man hired to terrorize or eliminate opponentsb : enforcer 2b
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Examples of goon in a Sentence
He was beat up by a couple of goons.
an unfortunate tendency to call those who disagree with him “brainless goons”
Recent Examples of goon from the Web
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Joe calls The @Potus a Schmuck, goon, & thug just to please D.C. NYC elites & Mika Liberal Joe is desperate for attention now. Lashing out @Potus me, singing bad songs on Colbert.
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Since then, the Communist Party’s censors and goons have stifled debate.
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The ideas the goons rioted to suppress had to slink away unheard.
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But as a mild-mannered getaway guy in Kevin Spacey and Jamie Foxx’s goon squad in Baby Driver (out now), Elgort’s left those cocky manboys in the dust.
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There were four-foot-tall flames licking at the windows by the time the goons fled.
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Letts also diminishes some of his play’s naturalness by inserting a subplot that requires two stock B-movie goons to appear on the scene.
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But reverberations from the altercation were felt as far as Capitol Hill, where Republican lawmakers scrambled to deal with the unflattering portrayal of their candidate behaving like a hockey goon.
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After some particularly disgusting remarks toward Nikki, the Russian goon talks about Siberia’s bloody dirt.
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Origin and Etymology of goon
probably short for English dialect gooney simpleton
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playDefinition of goon for English Language Learners
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: a person who is hired to threaten, beat up, or kill someone
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: a stupid person
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