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What (who) is Goons - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Goons; Goon (disambiguation); Goon (album)
goon
¦ noun informal
1. a foolish or eccentric person.
2. a thug, especially one employed to inflict violence on or intimidate others.
3. Brit. a guard in a German prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War.
Origin
C19: perh. from dialect gooney 'foolish person'; later influenced by the American cartoon character 'Alice the Goon'.
goon
(goons)
1.
A goon is a person who is paid to hurt or threaten people. (AM INFORMAL)
He and the other goon began to beat me up.
N-COUNT
2.
If you call someone a goon, you think they behave in a silly way. (OLD-FASHIONED)
N-COUNT [disapproval]
Lurgy
![The blue plaque from the old Camden Theatre, now Koko, the site of the recording of ''[[The Last Goon Show of All]]'' in 1972.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Blue plaque - Last Goon Show.jpg?width=200 "The blue plaque from the old Camden Theatre, now Koko, the site of the recording of ''[[The Last Goon Show of All]]'' in 1972.")
BBC RADIO SHOW BROADCAST BETWEEN 1950 AND 1960
Goon Show; Goon show; The Goons; Lurgy; Lergy; The Teahouse of the August Goon; The Goon Show format; Lergie; Lergies; THEGS; Thegs; GOONS; Dreaded lurgi
Li-er-gh-ee. A mysterious and deep rooted illness generally affecting breathing, but given to any fictional disease that persists for more then a few days.
I called in to work sick today, told them I had the lurgy.
I called in to work sick today, told them I had the lurgy.
Examples of use of Goons
1. Not a Hollywood–style blockbuster, but their very own lowlife hustles brought to the screen with all the verisimilitude of real goons playing real goons.
2. Crowds of rowdy protestors in London, Paris and San Francisco tussling with blue–tracksuited Chinese goons.
3. Now scientists have discovered that the Goons funnyman was the author of the world‘s funniest joke.
4. "So–called King Gyanendra and his son Paras are goons and smugglers," Prachanda said in Pokhara.
5. Indeed, his goons may have been entirely unaware of their act of Islamophobia.