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gone adjective- superlative, profoundly in touch with current trends US, 1946
Nellie Lutcher’s 1947 recording of “He’s a Real Gone Guy” did as much as anything to introduce the term into the language. - “That’s Bop language!” he laughed and handed me a Bop dictionary which translates the slang used by “real gone Boppers.” — San Francisco Examiner, p. Pictorial Review, 3 December 1948
- They were all good records: Frankie Laine, Sarah Vaughn, Billy Eckstein, all gone, good singers. They were goners. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 105, 1949
- I had a pad on tenth street living with a gone little chick from Newark. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 234, 6 October 1950
- Isn’t this wild, isn’t this crazy, ain’t this gone, this sure is! — William "Lord" Buckley, Nero, 1951
- I’ll pay. I’m a real gone guy. Don’t I trade with you a lot? — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 170, 1952
- Mary selected some gone numbers and beat on the table with the expression of a masturbating idiot. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 29, 1953
- “Your grandma,” he said, “is gone.” “I’m hip,” said Red. “She is the swingin’est, but let’s take it from the top again.” — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 47, 1955
- But this is only after you and I, dear Carlo, go to Texas, dig Old Bull Lee, the gone cat I’ve never met[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 48, 1957
- “Man, he’s the gonest!” one of the fellows said. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 363, 1958
- “Crazy, man, crazy,” spieled his pal, one eye lamping a real gone gal. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 18, 1959
- They say this French chick is real gone. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 183, 1961
- [A]n she is hot for a new one, so watch out, man – but it you ain’t got a pad, you can always make it at Destinee’s – it’s like a gone mission, man! — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 102, 1963
- He looked like one the real-goal cts with his signifying-walk[.] — Chester Himes, Cotton to Haariem, 1965
- I was gonna get a gone high ... a gone high ... a gone high. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 58, 1967
- I’m gonna be a real gone cat / Then I won’t want you. — Dave Bartholomew et al., I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday, 1999
- drunk or drug-intoxicated US, 1933
- You know. Drunk stewed, clobbered, gone, liquored up, oiled, stoned, in the bag. — Max Shulman, Guided Tour of Campus Humor, p. 106, 1955
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 5, April 1995
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 58, 1996
- completely destitute and physically ruined because of crack cocaine addiction US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- infatuated US
- Dig Number one: being gone on a boy is more important than having a boy gone on you. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 103, 1957
- pregnant AUSTRALIA
- Didn’t you notice it? She’s five months gone. — Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, p. 105, 1945
- Papa, she’s fixing your favorite dinner, macaroni and cheese, short ribs, yams and homemade biscuits. And even when she’s eight months gone. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Doom Fox, p. 246, 1978
- caught AUSTRALIA
- We’re dodging down a lane when we run slap bang into a provost. "We’re gone," I says to myself. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 13, 1954
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