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goon
noun- a unintelligent or slow-witted person US, 1921
From Alice the Goon, a character in the comic strip Thimble Theatre (1919), via a large and stupid character known as “the goon” in Elzie Segar’s comic strip Popeye the Sailor (1935–1938), which popularised the word and introduced it to the UK. Originally English dialect gooney (a simpleton), possibly from Middle English gonen (to gape) and Old English ganian (to gape, to yawn). UK usage from the 1950s is influenced by The Goon Show, a surreal BBC radio comedy with a cast of fools. - “I’ll clout you again, you goon,” Frank drew back his fast, but Black Benny held him — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 49, 1947
- Tightened them, rather, against the multimillion goons who would as soon sell all of liberty down any creek as their own two-big integrity. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 148, 1949
- I mean, that could have been really nice, only the goon that played the Playboy spoiled any fun it might have been. — J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, pp. 28–29, 1961
- Now all the poor goons were staggering into the heads and sicking their hearts out. — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 128, 1962
- The goons grab the girl and take off in Sparky’s car. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 11, 1986
- Not good enough for one of the fucking goons, mind you. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 50, 2001
- a clownish person, especially one with a surreal, wild and zany sense of humour
From The Goon, a BBC radio comedy series first broadcast in 1951. - Mr Campion [..] was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early [she] suspected. — Margery Allingham, The China Governess, 1963
- a hired thug US, 1938
A broadening of the original sense. - The goon who drove the car was still running around loose and if I had to go after somebody it’d might as well be him. — Mickey Spillane, The Big Kill, p. 29, 1951
- He had told them they were a pair of stupid goons who had got their training in violence on the New York police force and had been “broken” for extortion or sheer witlessness. — Mary McCarthy, The Group, p. 137, 1963
- Ron could rustle up a goon squad within minutes if he really needed it. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 55, 1997
- a partisan on either side of a labour dispute hired to perpetrate violence US, 1938
- Travis was a rough character who had lost an eye last year, or the year before, when a bunch of Steelworker Union goons broke into a radio station from which he was broadcasting in Alabama. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 123, 1961
- I’ll teach those union goons to destroy other people’s property! — C. D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 296, 1993
- a North Korean soldier US
- — American Speech, p. 120, May 1960: “Korean bamboo English”
- cheap wine AUSTRALIA
- For a cheap night out stuff a goonbag down your pants and smuggle it into a club, unzip your fly for easy access to the nozzle and offer to replace your mates’ empty with a nice glass of goon. — Wordmap (www.abc.net.au/wordmap), 2003
- a flagon of cheap wine AUSTRALIA, 1982
It has been suggested that this comes from “flagoon”, a jocular pronunciation of “flagon”, but this is not supported by any evidence. - And cheap because none of the wine he reviewed ever cost more than ten bucks a bottle. In fact very few even came within cooee of that, mostly tapering off at five or six bucks per four litre “goon.” — The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, p. 86, 1997
- phencyclidine, the recreational drug known as PCP or angel dust US
- — Drummer, p. 77, 1977
- — Ronald Linder, PCP: The Devil’s Dust, p. 9, 1981
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- a gooney-bird (a C-47A Skytrain plane) US, 1937
- I haven’t logged more than twenty hours of piston-engine time in the last four years, and only a little of that was in a Goon. — Walter Boyne and Steven Thompson, The Wild Blue, p. 212, 1986
- Half a day of boredom in / A silly, fuckin’ goon! — Joseph Tuso, Singing the Vietnam Blues, p. 160, 1990: Puff
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