goon squad
(chiefly, US, informal, derogatory, idiomatic) A group of individuals serving as enforcers, bodyguards, assassins, and the like, especially persons hired for such a purpose and using violent, thuggish
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perhaps the secret service should be renamed goon squad
Show me your papers! No, not those! What papers exactly are citizens supposed to carry that would satisfy the goon squad ?? Can he get a restraining order against the government goons?
I hope MIA realizes Sri Lanka is one of those "shit hole" countries that MAGATS loathe and her BROWN ASS would definitely be rounded up by Trump's goon squad also known as ICE.
How did BestBuy's "Goon Squad" become a metonym?
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(chiefly, US, informal, derogatory, idiomatic) A group of individuals serving as enforcers, bodyguards, assassins, and the like, especially persons hired for such a purpose and using violent, thuggish methods.
“perhaps the secret service should be renamed goon squad”
“I hope MIA realizes Sri Lanka is one of those "shit hole" countries that MAGATS loathe and her BROWN ASS would definitely be rounded up by Trump's goon squad also known as ICE.”
“perhaps the secret service should be renamed goon squad”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Show me your papers! No, not those! What papers exactly are citizens supposed to carry that would satisfy the goon squad ?? Can he get a restraining order against the government goons?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I hope MIA realizes Sri Lanka is one of those "shit hole" countries that MAGATS loathe and her BROWN ASS would definitely be rounded up by Trump's goon squad also known as ICE.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“How did BestBuy's "Goon Squad" become a metonym?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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