Gooner

Gooner

slang A nickname for a fan of Arsenal Football Club. An alteration of "Gunners," the team's nickname. Primarily heard in UK. I love football and have been a Gooner for as long as I can remember.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

gooner

(ˈgunɚ)
n. a term for an East Asian. (Derogatory and demeaning. Military.) See if one of the gooners will show you how to do it.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be rained off
  • get (one's) eye in
  • get your eye in
  • be tipping (it) down
  • be chucking (it) down
  • go about with
  • go about with (someone)
  • go around with (someone)
  • ice the kicker
  • icing the kicker
References in periodicals archive
Seeing such a talented 28-year-old, who was a Gooner for 11 years, being unveiled in a Juventus shirt when he was happy to keep wearing an Arsenal one, shows the fans are right to tell Stan Kroenke he hasn't got a clue about the club's soul.
SOME things just feel wrong. []
"It was massive for us at Liverpool but once a Gooner, always a Gooner, is what they say.
Former Gunner Ox so happy that Reds shot down Spurs By IAN DOYLE
GOALKEEPING sensation Alban Lafont turned his back on Arsenal last summer - but the Gooner fan doesn't rule out a future move to north London and the Emirates.
Laf: I still love Guns
ONE-TIME Tottenham hero Tim Sherwood WAS a Gooner...
Tim 'set to be Gooner'
Cheers Boycie #Legend @VueStudios Visit to @TheatrColwyn last night to see 12 Years A Slave great to see subtitles for the deaf & hard of hearing @NWDeafAssoc @kevingrove68 @BeingBoycie From a Gooner to a Gooner Great night at Colwyn Bay all the best John @Markojones81 @BeingBoycie had a brill evening in Colwyn bay with your show.
YOUR REVIEWS OF FILM, MUSIC AND THEATRE... tweets
"I've said and I'll always say, 'Once a Gooner, always a Gooner'!"
Emotional Henry cries after seeing his statue at Arsenal stadium
Arsenalisation is the official Gooner term for the process of making the Emirates Stadium feel more like a football club and less like the soulless pop concert venue/conference centre it so clearly is.
lexicon or lexicoff?
If you attempt to drive at the speed limit you will be hounded by some gooner from behind who feels 30mph is the minimum not the maximum.
Letter: YourSay - Anarchy on roads
FOOTBALL writer and lifelong Gooner Jem Maidment's choice of the greatest game in Arsenal history comes as no surprise, since it has already provided the climax of the Nick Hornby-scripted feature film, Fever Pitch.
Books: SPORT
Tomboy and her brother, Morse Minor, led the Arsenal faithful in a chorus of Ooh To Be A Gooner recently.
Man & Tomboy
We asked two top football writers from Liverpool and north London to compile a tongue-in-cheek portrait of a typical Red and a typical Gooner.
REDS & GOONERS: THE TRUTH; All the fun facts about the fans descending on our capital today
From Twitter Follow The Journal on Twitter @TheJournalNews @MickTheGooner (Michael Gooner) While Chelsea have spent pounds 64m in four years changing managers, Arsenal have made pounds 45.3m in the same period on player transfers!
From Twitter Follow The Journal [...]
A LOYAL Gooner has forwarded the season ticket renewal he recently received from the club.
Brothers in arms? THE MOLE
"We had a 'Be a Gooner, Be a Giver' charity day today - and you could not say the referee was a Gooner.
Wenger's fuming as Ade sees red mist
Hope Royal, a sister to Harbour Court, could go in the restricted, while Gooner Girl and Earl Grez have been given entries too.
POINT TO POINT