goon
noun/ɡuːn/
/ɡuːn/
(informal)- (especially North American English) a criminal who is paid to frighten or injure people
（受雇的）暴徒，流氓，打手 - Just call off your goons and no one will get hurt.
让你的打手走开，大家相安无事。 - The goons at the next table were just itching to finish him off.
邻桌的暴徒们恨不得把他干掉。
- Just call off your goons and no one will get hurt.
- (especially British English, old-fashioned) a stupid or silly person
傻瓜；蠢人
Word Originmid 19th cent.: perhaps from dialect gooney ‘booby’; influenced by the subhuman cartoon character ‘Alice the Goon’, created by E. C. Segar (1894–1938), American cartoonist.