goon

v. to act like a goon; to attack (someone) with undue or unprovoked violence. Also noun, gooning. Subjects: English, Canada, United States, Sports & Recreation

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Citations: 1978 Allen Abel @ Uniondale, N.Y. Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) (May 1) “Leafs muscle beats talent, downcast Islanders agree”: In the playoffs, intimidation, gooning it up, being as vicious as you can be is a big part of hockey. 1986 Jerry Zgoda Star-Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.) (Mar. 2) “St. Louis owner singles out Hospodar for gooning”: He criticized the NHL for allowing too much gooning. 1994 [] Worker’s Vanguard (New York City) (July 8) “Reformists Cover for Teamster Bureaucracy” @ Usenet: misc.headlines (July 13, 1994) (PNEWS) “[WV] 603 Teamsters article”: He got his group off the ground by gooning leftists and militant workers on behalf of the San Francisco labor tops during the 1983 Greyhound strike. 1994 Adrian Dater @ Lakewood, Colo. Denver Post (Colo.) (Sept. 4) “Green Mountain stuns Thornton”: Thornton coach Nate Leaf said his team played almost as well and was the victim of some rough Rams play, particularly on star halfback John Carroll. “They were “gooning’ him,” Leaf said. 2004 Jeff Coen, Glenn Jeffer Chicago Tribune (Aug. 5) “Teenager held in fatal ‘gooning’”: The group of teenagers called it “gooning,” authorities say, slang for the beating in the street of unsuspecting people they perceived to be drunk or elderly or otherwise defenseless.

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