goner
(informal) Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who is bound to die soon.
Seen in the wild
I can walk by the cookies and cakes, but if it’s a Neapolitan pizza, I am a goner 😆
RIP to whoever works in that office. Once one of these Canadian hell birds targets you, you’re a goner.
be too sweet and you'll be a goner! i'll pull a jeffrey dahmer!
Crowley and his manager bestie Donna are intrigued when Aziraphale first comes in. Crowley watches him on the security camera and he’s a complete goner when Aziraphale easily lifts the heaviest sledgehammer in the room.
An Alberta power company worker believed he was a goner one summer day as he stood beside a rural road when two men drove up and shot him through the arm.
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(informal) Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who is bound to die soon.
“An Alberta power company worker believed he was a goner one summer day as he stood beside a rural road when two men drove up and shot him through the arm.”
I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work.
“Crowley and his manager bestie Donna are intrigued when Aziraphale first comes in. Crowley watches him on the security camera and he’s a complete goner when Aziraphale easily lifts the heaviest sledgehammer in the room.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“An Alberta power company worker believed he was a goner one summer day as he stood beside a rural road when two men drove up and shot him through the arm.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(baseball, _, slang) A ball hit out of the playing area for a home run.
You'll be a goner if I hit you with this gun.
“I can walk by the cookies and cakes, but if it’s a Neapolitan pizza, I am a goner 😆”
— Bluesky· May 2026“RIP to whoever works in that office. Once one of these Canadian hell birds targets you, you’re a goner.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“be too sweet and you'll be a goner! i'll pull a jeffrey dahmer!”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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