Usually means: Rough or aggressive hired enforcer.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word goon:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. goon: Merriam-Webster
  2. Goon, goon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. goon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. goon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. goon: Vocabulary.com
  6. goon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Goon, goon: Wiktionary
  8. goon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. goon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. goon: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. goon: Dictionary.com
  12. goon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. goon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Goon (Global Goon album), Goon (Tobias Jesso Jr. album), Goon (film), Goon (hockey), Goon, The Goon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. goon: Rhymezone
  16. goon: FreeDictionary.org
  17. goon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Goon: The Word Detective
  19. goon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. goon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. goon: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. GOON: Acronym Finder
  2. goon: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. goon: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. goon, goon, goon, goon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. goon: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Goon: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. goon [goonball] [goons]: Urban Dictionary
  5. Goon: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See goons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence.
noun:  (US, informal) A hired & paid person who is assigned to terrorize & kill opponents.
noun:  A fool; someone who is silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
noun:  (ice hockey, derogatory) An enforcer or fighter.
noun:  (UK, World War II, PoW slang) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
noun:  (slang) One hired to legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.
noun:  (Internet slang) A member of the comedy website Something Awful.
verb:  (transitive, slang, ice hockey) To act like a goon; to act in an intimidating or aggressive way towards opponents.
verb:  (neologism) To legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.
noun:  (countable, Australia, informal) A wine flagon or cask.
noun:  (uncountable, Australia, informal) Cheap or inferior cask wine.
noun:  A Sino-Japanese kanji pronunciation layer, considered the first Sino-Japanese kanji reading type imported into Japan.
verb:  (Internet slang) To masturbate for long periods of time without reaching a climax.
verb:  (by extension, Internet slang) To masturbate.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of goon (“a member of the comedy web site Something Awful”). [A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence.]

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