[
UK
/ɡˈuːn/
]
[ US /ˈɡun/ ]
[ US /ˈɡun/ ]
NOUN
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- an awkward stupid person
How To Use goon In A Sentence
- Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
- In the night of the 28th 2,000 French dragoons each laden with 60 pounds of gunpowder arrived at the circumvallating walls in disguise.
- The large lagoon and break in the reef attract many species, including dugongs, whale sharks, dolphins and manta rays.
- No sign of Dobson and his goon, but one bloke was stock-still on the pavement, keeping his eyes on us even when jostled. THE TARTAN RINGERS
- The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica. Península Valdés, Argentina
- Attempts at forcible conversion involved the quartering of troops - often dragoons, hence dragonnades - on Huguenot households.
- A subject race, dragooned by force for centuries, has shaken off the last of its shackles.
- At sunup and sundown, the lagoon becomes a communal meeting place for locals.
- Clocking in at just over a dozen jobs, players will have warriors, red, black, and white mages, paladins, thieves, samurai, ninjas, dragoons, monks, summoners, beast masters, and dark knights at their disposal.
- Muddy and broad, it picks its way across the plains, changing course at will, leaving a maze of dead ends, ox-bow lakes, swamps and lagoons.