goon

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

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.

   an awkward stupid person

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

1. Tom is a goon.

   ruТом - головорез.

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2. His goons are here to kill us.

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3. His goons dirtied my drink.

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4. He's a goon.

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5. In the end I had to beat the crap out of the two poor goons that they sent after me.

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