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gooned

gooned is the simple past and past participle of goon.

Meaning of goon

Verb (1)

goon (third-person singular simple present goons, present participle gooning, simple past and past participle gooned)

  1. (slang, transitive) To act like a goon; to act in an intimidating or aggressive way towards opponents.
    • In the mid-week game against the Czech republic, the Czech team speared, slashed, tripped, gooned, and in more cases than I recall, crosschecked Canadian players in the teeth.1997 May 14, Gary Gambino Sr., “sports bytes 19 pt. 1”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet)
  2. (neologism) To legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.
    • Owen Jenney, Ms. Hamburger's son, got gooned, though he said his goons turned out to be "really nice guys, actually." He is 19 now, a freshman in college, and he remembers arriving in the wilderness frightened and confused, angrily convinced that sending him across the country to Oregon was "way...2016 October 20, Laura Collins-Hughes, “Therapy Becomes Theater in 'Wilderness'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Oct...

Verb (2)

goon (third-person singular simple present goons, present participle gooning, simple past and past participle gooned)

  1. (Internet, intransitive, slang, strictly) To masturbate for long periods of time without reaching a climax.
    • Dirt bike riding is the pursuit of skill and technique in a challenging environment. To me, its not about gooning before friends to be the baddest one on the block. Leave that for other stuff.1998 August 11, docto...@msn.com, “Fellow Riders/Racers... Sanity Check!”, in rec.motorcycles.dirt (Usenet)
    1. (Internet, broadly, intransitive, strictly) To masturbate (in general).

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Phrases with gooned

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Questions about gooned

What is gooned the simple past and past participle of?
Gooned is the simple past and past participle of goon.

Words near gooned in the dictionary

  1. goondie
  2. goondies
  3. Goondiwindi
  4. goondu
  5. goondus
  6. gooned
  7. gooned out
  8. Goonellabah
  9. Goonengerry
  10. gooner
  11. goonerbait

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