goon

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence.

   “Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.”

2. (US, countable, informal, uncountable)A hired and paid person who is assigned to terrorize and kill opponents.
3. (countable, uncountable)A fool; someone who is silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.

   “Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.”

   “Sending for the goon who sent for me / He's thinking he's hard, yeah, it's Little T”

4. (countable, derogatory, uncountable)An enforcer or fighter.

   “[…]a scout from the Flames came down from Saskatoon, said, "There's always room on our team for a goon"”

5. (UK, countable, uncountable)A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
6. (countable, slang, uncountable)One hired to legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.

   “Owen Jenney, Ms. Hamburger's son, got gooned, though he said his goons turned out to be "really nice guys, actually." He is 19 now, a freshman in college, and he remembers arriving in the wilderness frightened and confused, angrily convinced that sending him across the country to Oregon was "way out of proportion" to the situation.”

7. (Australia, colloquial, uncountable)Box wine.

   “Once a tap was designed in the 1970s goon climbed quickly to make up about 50 per cent of wine sales in Australia. In the days when restaurants sold "house wine", goon was known for being economical above anything else, and convenient, associated more with families on a budget and people on low incomes.”

8. (Internet, countable, uncountable)A member of the comedy website Something Awful.

   “These first two steps were time-sensitive. Not only did goons need to beat Imgur's mid-May deadline but they also needed to account for the possibility that Imgur would treat the download as some kind of attack and throttle it — a possibility that, it turns out, never came to pass.”

9. (Australia, Internet, countable, informal, intransitive)A wine flagon or cask.

   “We drank goons of cheap wine.”

10. (Australia, Internet, informal, intransitive, uncountable)Cheap or inferior cask wine.

    “‘On the night of our school graduation he stole a flagon of goon wine and disappeared into the woods. The police found him the next day asleep on the creek.[…]’”

    “With these instructions, we take turns sipping the wine directly from the bottle on the beach. It′s not the classiest thing to do but the fact that it′s in a bottle already makes it classier than all the boxes of goon we′ve consumed this trip.”

    “Red wine was consumed largely by posh folk, white wine meant goon, mention of a Jägerbomb would have sent its father ducking for cover, and ‘sex on the beach’ meant just that.”

11. (Internet, intransitive, uncountable)A Sino-Japanese kanji pronunciation layer, considered the first Sino-Japanese kanji reading type used in Japan.

    “The Buddhist term 権化 is read as gonge, using the kanji's goon readings.”

12. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of goon (“a member of the comedy web site Something Awful”).

    “The 90,000 registered forum users can pretty much depend on an instant Goon fraternity in almost whatever game they’re interested in. Thanks to a history of gaming exploits and the general scatologically angled humor of Something Awful, the Goons have a reputation as being a disruptive influence in many games.”

    “Not all the message boards celebrate the griefers in their midst: Kyanka finds griefing lame, as do many Goons and /b/tards. Nor do the griefers themselves all get along. Patriotic Nigras, /b/tards all, look on the somewhat better-behaved Goon community—in particular the W-Hats, a Second Life group open only to registered Something Awful members—as a bunch of uptight sellouts.”

    “Goons posted and discussed a growing assortment of Slender Man fan art, videos, and wiki entries they had found in other digital spaces. One Goon even claimed that someone in their offline life with no connection to Something Awful had—without prompting—told them all about the Slender Man.”

verb

1. (slang, transitive)To act like a goon; to act in an intimidating or aggressive way towards opponents.

   “In the mid-week game against the Czech republic, the Czech team speared, slashed, tripped, gooned, and in more cases than I recall, crosschecked Canadian players in the teeth.”

   “Imagine losing to a team that gooned it up and attempted to take out your best players with heavy hits?”

   “Obviously, we wanted to kill Kozlov. We thought it was the dirtiest thing in the world. Things picked up after that. We were out for blood after that. We didn't goon them. They gooned us, really, and we just had to respond.”

2. (neologism)To legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.

   “Owen Jenney, Ms. Hamburger's son, got gooned, though he said his goons turned out to be "really nice guys, actually." He is 19 now, a freshman in college, and he remembers arriving in the wilderness frightened and confused, angrily convinced that sending him across the country to Oregon was "way out of proportion" to the situation.”

   “Some described being "gooned" in the middle of the night by strongmen hired by their family to forcibly transport them to camp.”

   “He was soon bungled out of the Patterson family’s California home and into a taxi on the way to the airport. He was being "gooned" - forcibly transported to a place aimed at correcting naughty children's behaviour.”

3. (Internet, intransitive, slang)To masturbate for long periods of time without reaching a climax.

   “Dirt bike riding is the pursuit of skill and technique in a challenging environment. To me, its not about gooning before friends to be the baddest one on the block. Leave that for other stuff.”

   “Surfing meaning to surf decently most normal surfspots in the world, no gooning out.”

   “If I'm watching a game from home (instead of a get-together or a bar), I've usually got Trillian fired up, and am gooning and being gooned by others doing the same thing I'm doing as a game progresses.”

   “The 23-year-old posted some photos on Instagram on Saturday of himself gooning around for the camera.”

   “To goon, Christfister says, "Instead of powering through and jerking off 100 percent to orgasm, you ease off around 90 percent and slowly build up" to the point of no return.”

4. (Internet, broadly, intransitive)To masturbate for long periods of time without reaching a climax.

name

1. A surname.