[ɡuːn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a stupid, foolish, or eccentric person
(e.g: I don't want to deal with Jack today, he's such a goon)

- a violent, aggressive person who is hired to intimidate or harm people
(e.g: he hired goons to hunt down supporters)

- a guard in a German prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 19th century: perhaps from dialect gooney ‘booby’; influenced by the subhuman cartoon character ‘Alice the Goon’, created by E. C. Segar (1894–1938), American cartoonist

[ɡuːn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- cheap wine, especially when sold in large cartons
(e.g: we sat in the kitchen drinking the rest of the goon)


Phrases:

Origin:
1980s: probably an alteration of flagon, possibly influenced by goom