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How to pronounce goon in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms clod, gawk, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum
Type of clumsy person
Type Words
Synonyms hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie
Type of crook, malefactor, outlaw, criminal, felon
Has types bully

Examples of goon

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The Senators goon then leaves the ice with what appears to be a shoulder injury.
From the post-gazette.com
For the rest of the evening I've got the pole in my hands, smiling like a goon.
From the theatlantic.com
I wonder what this goon would say about the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
From the guardian.co.uk
A goon has made his way onto the pitch and put his arm around the Sydney striker.
From the smh.com.au
Security deals with him pretty quickly but not before he makes a goon of himself.
From the smh.com.au
It appears that we're now willing to help overthrow any country, if run by a goon.
From the sfgate.com
I have nothing suitable at all and so look like a right goon in my suit on Fridays.
From the guardian.co.uk
Later in the first quarter, Scola hip-checked Kobe Bryant like a hockey goon.
From the time.com
With a goon maneuver, he slammed Nash into the scorer's table with a nasty forearm.
From the usatoday.com
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  • Lout: an awkward stupid person
  • Hood: an aggressive and violent young criminal
  • Goon is an IDM/techno album by Johnny Hawk under the recording name of Global Goon. It is his debut album and first release on Rephlex Records. It was released in 1996.
  • Enforcer is an unofficial role in ice hockey. The term is sometimes used synonymously with "fighter", "tough guy" or "goon". NHL players regarded as enforcers include Tiger Williams, Bob Probert, Dave Semenko, Dave Schultz, Tie Domi, Dave Brown, Georges Laraque, Joey Kocur and Terry O'Reilly.
  • The Goon is a comic book series by Eric Powell. The series has a distinctly paranormal slant, with the average story concerning ghosts, ghouls, skunk-apes with an unnatural hunger for pie, extra-dimensional aliens, and mad scientists.
  • (Goons) The Goon Show was a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme. ...
  • A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon'); A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish; An enforcer or fighter
  • (GOONS) Teamster thugs paid by the growers to harass and intimidate farmworkers who supported the UFW.
  • (GOONS) Guild of One Name Studies