goon

goon squad

A group of people hired or acting for the purposes of enforcement, protection, intimidation, and/or harassment on behalf of someone else. Primarily heard in US. After Mr. Smith refused to pay the mafia protection money, they sent a goon squad around to rough him up.
See also: goon, squad

gooned

slang Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were totally gooned!
See also: goon

goon-platoon

slang A military platoon that is known for its misdeeds or mistakes. Please tell me I'm not going to be in charge of that goon-platoon.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

goon

(gun)
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!

goon squad

1. n. an organized group of thugs; a gang of toughs. (Underworld.) The goon squad Mr. Big sent around scared the devil out of Wilmer.
2. n. the police. My old buddy on the goon squad tells me there’ll be some action over on Maple Street tonight.
See also: goon, squad

gooned

(gund)
mod. drunk. (As though beat up by a goon.) His date was gooned by ten, and he had to take her home.
See also: goon

goon-platoon

n. a platoon of misfits; a platoon that is noted for its errors. (Military.) Well, the goon-platoon’s done it again!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • goon squad
  • take up the cudgel(s)
  • take up the cudgel(s) for (someone or something)
  • take up the cudgels for somebody/something
  • enforcer
  • textual harassment
  • strong-arm man
  • put a gun to (someone's) head
  • cross purpose
  • J. Edgar
References in periodicals archive
Dogun Goon was arrested by Chinese inspector John McCabe of Boston on August 16, 1917, and charged with being unlawfully in the United States in violation of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
The Holy Grail for Goon fans, however, is the harder-to find-than-hen's-teeth televised recording the trio reunited to make in 1972.
The Goon Show was the best fun I ever had." When Andy said he feared people would think he was capitalising on his father's name Sir Harry retorted: "Other fathers have companies they can pass on to their sons.
Of the Goon Show's continued popularity on BBC Radio 7 she said: "I am very lucky to have that connection with my father.
It was the post-war Goon Show which made Milligan famous.
Robin Williams describes The Goon Show as "pure madness".
The Goon world was filled with eccentric characters boasting names like Ned Seagoon, Eccles, Bluebottle, Bloodnok, the Hon Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Minnie Bannister, Henry Crun and Moriarty.
The homegrown pic's performance was helped by a strategy from distrib Alliance Films that launched "Goon" simultaneously both in its original English-language version and a dubbed French translation for the Quebec market.
That's the biggest problem with the film and it casts one heck of a big shadow over Goon's strong suits.
This month, the astute reader searching for a perfect example of books in this category need look no further than Eric Powell's The Goon vol.
The prince has been a fan of the Goon Show's surreal radio sketches performed by Sir Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, since he was a schoolboy and revealed how he could mimic all the characters the trio created.
ARDEC engineer Eric Goon designed the new concepts, the first of which is a coupling, or pivoting, used to connect grenade ammunition cartridge loops.
Another compares it to the Goon Show - the goons in this case being the hierarchy at BBC Wales for commissioning past and present series.
First to meet us is Goon Andrei, surrounded by a great milling crowd of Goons.
Goon is a giant: standing six foot nine inches and weighing in at four hundred pounds, he is a monster whose path you wouldn't want to cross, in or out of the ring.