It will always mean bags of wine to me
I hate having to explain "goon of fortune" now...
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what's a goon to a Goblin?
Depends on what he's goblin.
Or Sean William Scott.
Yup, “Goon” will always mean hockey enforcer to me. If they want a name for jacking it, that would be “Goon 2”
The Last Enforcer
What if they used jacking off? Or something like beating it? I bet there's a hundred ways to flog the dolphin.
The Goonies should own that word
Ive got 4 definitions... Making it extra confusing.
- The one from the post.
- The new zoomer definition.
- A member of the EvE Online alliance "Goonswarm Federation" (an army of 10k angry nerds).
- A member of the security team at DefCon.
Both 3 and 4 predate 2 by well more than 15 years, this is one of those zoomer additions to the common lexicon I would prefer reverted to the old definitions.
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Goon means wine in a bag.
I'm also pretty amused my the new meaning though. Eg. When Keir Starmer elated himself a gooner.
Gooning gooner gooning goons
I like gooning for the family
I mean, it's not that off target.
Goons where low level mafia enforcers who came into your space unbidden and roughed you up or worse.
You saw those guys loitering around you knew they were up to no good.
I miss when people correctly capitalised the word I
when was that precisely?
It was a time long ago, before social media was a thing, and when people learned how to spell by reading books.
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I’ve been attending STLV which is at the Rio in Las Vegas. Past two years Defcon has been there. I guess attendees for that convention get labels. I see lots of people which patches that say they are goons.
Hired goons?
20 new words a year from people that barely read books. No wonder they think they are inventing lingo.
We've got a town in NZ called Rangiora, but it's pretty ubiquitously known as "Goon" to locals.
My theory is "Rangiora" -> "Rangoon" -> "Goon".
We also call the inner bag removed from boxed wine a "goon sack", though that one is borrowed from the Aussies.
How do you feel about Stifler being the main actor in a franchise called Goon?
Not exactly news that words often change meanings over time.
Literally