"goons" (not -----) which is a "term of endearment" according to Zimmerman's best friend

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26. the last definition is one I had not heard before, but nowhere do I see anything as a term of "

endearment"

goon
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goon
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noun
1.
Informal . a hired hoodlum or thug.
2.
Slang .
a.
a stupid, foolish, or awkward person.
b.
a roughneck.
Origin:
1920–25; shortened from dial. gooney, variant of obsolete gony a simpleton (< ?); influenced by the comic-strip character Alice the Goon in the series Thimble Theatre by E. C. Segar (1894–1938), American cartoonist
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Here was this guy who was the biggest goon alive, and he was so kind.

Anybody who is not in on the goon conspiracy knows what he's about.

The regime arrested many protest leaders and sent in plain-clothes goon squads to attack the demonstrators.

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goon 1 (ɡuːn)

— n
1. a stupid or deliberately foolish person
2. informal ( US ) a thug hired to commit acts of violence or intimidation, esp in an industrial dispute

[C20: partly from dialect gooney fool, partly after the character Alice the Goon, created by E. C. Segar (1894--1938), American cartoonist]

goon 2

— n
informal ( Austral ) cheap wine packaged in casks or boxed (I have heard of cheap wine being called "plonk", but this is a new one to me)

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