- (especially North American English)
a criminal who is paid to frighten or injure people （受雇的）暴徒，流氓，打手 Just call off your goons and no one will get hurt. 让你的打手走开，大家相安无事。 The goons at the next table were just itching to finish him off. 邻桌的打手们急着要干掉他。
- (especially British English, old-fashioned)
a stupid or silly person 傻瓜；蠢人
Word Originmid 19th cent.: perhaps from dialect gooney ‘booby’; influenced by the subhuman cartoon character ‘Alice the Goon’, created by E. C. Segar (1894–1938), American cartoonist.