goner
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈɡoʊnər/
- Informal
:
desahuciado
- My doctor told me if I don't quit, I'm a goner, but what can I do?
- a goner for sure
- already a goner
- probably a goner
You are a goner, even if you meant no harm.
- You are a goner, even if you meant no harm.
- I thought I was a goner, She said so did I.
- Microsoft and Amazon used to be in the day, Yahoo, but Yahoo's kind of a, you know, a goner, I think.
- This one is almost a goner, so when you get the top pieces, just hold it up so it kind of locks in that volume.
- Anything I would have been been a goner.
Examples
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Maybe all that I was sure of was that my heart was a goner.
Fiction book (2000) -
We were goners for sure.
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I mean, I thought I was a goner for sure.
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I was sure you were a goner there for a moment.
Blog text (28) -
You are a goner, even if you meant no harm.
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I thought you were a goner!
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"I thought we were both goners," she said.
Fiction book (1997) -
I'm a goner.
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- Yeah, if Dr. Dave hadn't been there, we'd all be goners.
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When the storm hit, we all thought we were goners and would never make it out safely.
Synonyms
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8.7
A person who is certain to fail or be in big trouble
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9.9
Someone or something people treat as worthless and easily defeated
Antonyms
How Hopeless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word goner comes from gone ('no longer here' or 'lost') plus the ending -er that turns a word into a person, so a goner is someone who is 'gone' in the sense of being beyond help or hope.