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gooners

gooners is the plural of gooner.

Meaning of gooner

Noun (1)

gooner (plural gooners)

  1. (Internet) An individual who practices gooning (a form of masturbation that involves edging for a long period of time).
    • I am likely both too repressed and too vanilla to ever be a gooner of any distinction, but the term speaks to the existence of a community of men for whom masturbation is a serious and important aspect of their sexuality.2018 July 18, John Sherman, “Why Some Guys Like Jerking Off Together”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022
    Synonyms:
    bator, edger
  2. (broadly, derogatory) An individual addicted to sexual or sexualized content.
    • "nier automata is a gooner game" you have never played past ending a2024 April 3, @NiroOfBhaal, Twitter

Noun (2)

gooner (plural gooners)

  1. (US, ethnic, slur, Vietnam War) A Vietnamese person.
    • During both offensive and defensive operations the grunts occasionally encountered Vietnamese civilians. The Vietnamese were almost always referred to in the most derogatory terms— gooks, gooners, zipper-heads or zips, slopes, dinks, and slant-eyes. In contrast to the last term, round-eyes...[1976, Charles R[oberts] Anderson, “Vocabulary Note”, in The Grunts, San Rafael, C.A.: Presidio Press, page xiv

Noun capitalized: Gooners

Gooners

  1. (plural) plural of Gooner

Questions about gooners

What is gooners the plural of?
Gooners is the plural of gooner.
What part of speech is gooners?
Gooners is a noun.

Words near gooners in the dictionary

  1. gooned out
  2. Goonellabah
  3. Goonengerry
  4. gooner
  5. goonerbait
  6. gooners
  7. goonerslop
  8. goonery
  9. goonette
  10. goonettes
  11. gooney

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