Goon

goon English Etymology 1 Perhaps a shortened form of en ga McGoohan. Proper noun s en. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Goon is the 29198th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 811 individuals. Goon is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (51.17%) and White (38.72%) individuals. Etymology 2 Noun en goon a member of the comedy web site Something Awful. en w:Jim Rossignol [Reykjavik] Model Living This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities Ann Arbor, Mich. The University of Michigan Press 2008 177 https://books.google.com/books?id=knBOMCfnkzoC&pg=PA177 978-0-472-11635-5 The 90,000 registered forum users can pretty much depend on an instant Goon fraternity in almost whatever game they’re interested in. Thanks to a history of gaming exploits and the general scatologically angled humor of Something Awful, the Goons have a reputation as being a disruptive influence in many games. en w:Julian Dibbell Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World Steven Johnson The Best Technology Writing 2009 New Haven, Conn. w:Yale University Press 18 January 2008 2009 12 https://books.google.com/books?id=6r-pcB5WL8wC&pg=PA12 978-0-300-15410-8 Not all the message boards celebrate the griefers in their midst: Kyanka finds griefing lame, as do many Goons and /b/tards. Nor do the griefers themselves all get along. Patriotic Nigras, /b/tards all, look on the somewhat better-behaved Goon community—in particular the W-Hats, a Second Life group open only to registered Something Awful members—as a bunch of uptight sellouts. en Andrew Peck Circulation Digital Legend and Belief: The Slender Man, Folklore, and the Media Madison, Wis. The University of Wisconsin Press 2023 74 https://books.google.com/books?id=Wvy6EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 9780299343408 Goons posted and discussed a growing assortment of Slender Man fan art, videos, and wiki entries they had found in other digital spaces. One Goon even claimed that someone in their offline life with no connection to Something Awful had—without prompting—told them all about the Slender Man. References Anagrams en gnoo gono- no go no-go nogo noog ongo Alemannic German Noun gsw noun f gsw Uri A wooden ladle for milk References 25