English Dictionary

goon

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡuːn/

名詞

軽蔑的 イギリス英語 インターネット 俗語

A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon'). / A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.

日本語の意味

低知能な肉体派の悪漢、雇われの用心棒として用いられる人物 / 愚か者、ばか、または奇妙な行動をとる人

He hired a goon to intimidate the neighbors.

彼は近所の住民を脅すためにチンピラを雇った。

意味（1）

A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').

Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.

意味（2）

A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.

Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

意味（3）

(ice hockey, derogatory) An enforcer or fighter.

[…]a scout from the Flames came down from Saskatoon, said, There's always room on our team for a goon

意味（4）

(UK, WWII, PoW slang) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.

意味（5）

(Internet slang) A member of the comedy web site Something Awful.

goons （ plural ）