Meaning

2 senses
  1. (informal)Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who is bound to die soon.

    I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work.

    You'll be a goner if I hit you with this gun.

    hoffnungsloser Fall, Todgeweihter, Verlorener

    ко́нченый челове́кkónčenyj, пропа́щий челове́кpropáščij

  2. (slang)A ball hit out of the playing area for a home run.

More definitions
  • a person in desperate straits; someone doomed

Examples

19 sentences
  1. Tom is a goner.

    З Томом покінчено.

    ruТом не жилец.

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  2. You're a goner.

    Тобі капут.

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  3. Tom thought he was a goner.

    ruТом подумал, что он мёртв.

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  4. Tom thought that he was a goner.

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  5. I thought Tom was a goner.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
someone doomed, a hopeless case:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
someone doomed, a hopeless case:

Origin

From gone + -er. First attestations around 1850.

From gone + -er. First attestations around 1850.

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Forms

plural: goners
Singulargoner
Pluralgoners

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person in desperate straits; someone doomed:toast

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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