As stupid as it was, "Fap," made sense.

People keep on using "glaze" to mean to excessively praise somebody, but I'm pretty sure it means to give a wet sloppy blowjob, so it's pretty weird hearing it used otherwise.

Goon literally started out as the big nosed henchmen of the sea hag in the Popeye comic strip in the 1930s. It got applied to refer to anti-union fighters very quickly before it became a general purpose word meaning low-level henchman.

As a Gen-Xer I can attest that up until two weeks ago I was very much so misunderstanding "gooning". Once again, porn saves the day.

For real, why can't these people just make up their own words?

What does it mean now?

I would feel bad for arsenal supporters but they've always been a bunch of wankers.

Ahh when goon was short for flagon or flagoon! Cheap wine was the go!

I occasionally throw it in like that to keep things fun at work.

If they don't deliver the server I think we should send hired goons over.

Don't worry, just send that to the goons in implementation.

And there was a time that gay meant happy and a removed was a piece of fire wood. Though the Brits, in their usual word butchery, turned that into fag for cigarette.

Languages change and morph. They are living things. And despite the French's best effort to try and prevent it.

The Goonies should own that word

Do you all remember the movie “The Goonies”? Yeah… so many levels of wrong with this new definition when applied to that movie

It will always mean bags of wine to me

I hate having to explain "goon of fortune" now...

Ive got 4 definitions... Making it extra confusing.

1. The one from the post.
2. The new zoomer definition.
3. A member of the EvE Online alliance "Goonswarm Federation" (an army of 10k angry nerds).
4. A member of the security team at DefCon.

Both 3 and 4 predate 2 by well more than 15 years, this is one of those zoomer additions to the common lexicon I would prefer reverted to the old definitions.

It is crazy how words change meaning. Surprising that low level mafia muscle was a Goon and now it somehow relates to the euphoria one experiences eating Fast Food Chinese crab rangoons.

While I love going at a china buffet as much as the next fella - I don't understand how it became associated with mob henchmen.