goon

noun10

1. •
   A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence.
2. •
   (US, informal) A hired and paid person who is assigned to terrorize and kill opponents.
3. •
   (disapproving) An enforcer or fighter.

   • […]a scout from the Flames came down from Saskatoon, said, "There's always room on our team for a goon" — 2002
4. •
   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. — 1963
5. •
   (Australia, informal) Box wine.
6. •
   (Australia, informal) 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.[…]’ — 2010
7. •
   (UK) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
8. •
   (Internet) A member of the comedy website Something Awful.
9. •
   (Australia, informal) A wine flagon or cask.

   • We drank goons of cheap wine. — 2009
10. •
    (slang) One hired to legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.

verb4

1. •
   (Internet, 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. — 1998
2. •
   (Internet, slang) To masturbate (in general).
3. •
   (slang) 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. — 1997
4. •
   To legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.

   • Some described being "gooned" in the middle of the night by strongmen hired by their family to forcibly transport them to camp. — 2022

noun1

1. •
   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.

verb1

1. •
   to strive towards some action; similar to -maxx, but also implies misguidedness or foolishness