Goon

A goon is someone that is employed as someone's personal enforcer, such as either a personal bodyguard or a ruffian who is kept on staff to intimidate or batter people. Goon may also refer to:

• A performer in The Goon Show
• A guard in a prisoner of war camp - (British World War II usage)
• Alice the Goon, character in the Popeye comic strip
• Barney Irwin, wrestler briefly known as "The Goon"
• Enforcer (hockey), also known as a goon
• Goon (album), a 1996 release by Global Goon
• Goon (film), a 2011 comedy film starring Seann William Scott
• The Goon, comic book series created by Eric Powell
• A member of the Something Awful community
• Another name for the character in the Kilroy was here graffiti
• Australian/New Zealand slang word for cheap box wine, particularly common amongst Australian students
• GOONs, Guardians of the Oglala Nation, private paramilitary group active on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during the early 1970s
• GOONS, an acronym for the Guild of One-Name Studies
• PC Goon, character in Enid Blyton's The Five Find-Outers series of children's books