goons

plural of goon
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Recent Examples of goons Sometimes his quest for the truth takes the shape of a prototypical thriller—rendezvous at dive bars, threats issued by shadowy goons in parking lots. Judy Berman, Time, 9 Oct. 2025 Both Cleo and Mitch end up being restrained by the tycoon’s strong-armed goons. Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 5 Oct. 2025 Elsewhere, Mussolini’s goons beat to death a Catholic member of Parliament who refused to bend, the blood from his face and hands smearing the alley wall like stigmata. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025 The rapper Killer Mike makes the most of his limited screen time as the no-nonsense publisher of a local tabloid that prints Lee’s more lowbrow, retaliatory material, including the mug shots and criminal histories of some goons who assaulted him. Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 Hawley waited until the start of the fifth season to lean all the way into the comparison, by borrowing the movie’s inciting incident where a Minnesota Nice housewife is kidnapped by two goons — one hapless, one relentless and seemingly mystical. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025 The goons were sent by Colorado (Bad Bunny, credited as Benito Martínez Octavio, his real name), who turns out to be pretty tough himself. Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Nate is alive, but is being experimented upon by Horizen goons in some secret location. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025 There’s even duck boats now, albeit with goons impaled by an anchor and buoy. Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goons
Noun
  • To be funny while playing a character who’s sweet and endearing (even when calling his friends idiots) is a skill, and Bad Bunny has it.
    Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2025
  • For a bunch of idiots, this did not work out too badly.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In The Big Lebowski, thugs mistake the titular slacker (Bridges) for the wealthy Jeffrey Lebowski, sending him on a wild investigation with his pal Walter (John Goodman) into a ransom plot involving Lebowski’s young wife (Tara Reid).
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Their neighbor, an older Jewish woman, gets arrested and Nazi thugs brazenly loot her apartment.
    Rabih Alameddine September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Flock Safety argues its drone system can act as a deterrent simply by being visible, making criminals think twice before targeting a store.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • So those drums can fall into the hands of criminals who then refill them with the cheaper, toxic liquids and pass them off as the pharmaceutical-grade product, selling them to drug manufacturers who are looking to save money on ingredients.
    Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So that episode will make fun [of] billionaire life-extension body-hacking lunatics.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Whether those people are sickened by grief and rage into a kind of temporary insanity, genuine lunatics, hustlers looking to milk a little more engagement or some combination of the three doesn’t really matter.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Two sisters with a tragic story are said to linger upstairs at Langston’s Western Wear, and unexplained voices and rattling glassware have been heard at Gabriella’s Italian Grill, a Prohibition-era building with a gangsters and gambling history.
    Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In those times, young people who self-described as gangsters fought for territory, and one of their subversive acts was to tag the walls of the city with the verses of cumbia songs.
    Karla Gachet, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The tournaments pit heroes like Liu Kang, Raiden, and Sonya Blade against such villains as Shang Tsung, Shao Kahn, and Scorpion.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Despite being grouped together with the villains who slashed their way through the ’80s (and, to a lesser extent, the ’90s), Freddy has always been unique.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Over $200 Off NFL Sunday Ticket NFL fans can make out like bandits with the DraftKings Sportsbook welcome offer.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern were cast as the bumbling but dogged bandits, Harry and Marv, and Catherine O’Hara brought humor and compassion to the part of Kevin’s mother.
    Tim Greiving, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025

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