# gooner

Pronunciation: US say "GOO-ner" /ˈɡu.nəɹ/; UK say "GOO-nuh" /ˈɡuː.nə/

## Noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gooner, a supporter of Arsenal, the London soccer club. *(slang, British)*
   - Simple: A fan of Arsenal, the London soccer club. It is Gooner written with a small g.
   - _Dad has been a gooner since the seventies and still never misses a home match._
   - _As a lifelong gooner, she took the derby defeat harder than anyone at the pub._
2. A person who practices prolonged masturbation with edging, or who seems obsessed with pornography or sexual content; often used as an insult. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Someone who masturbates for long periods or seems obsessed with sexual content, often used as an insult.
   - _She muted the thread after a gooner left his fifth creepy comment on her post._
   - _Critics dismissed it as a gooner game, but the story turned out to be genuinely moving._

## Origin

**Meaning 1** — An alteration of Gunner, from the Gunners, the nickname of Arsenal Football Club, which munitions workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich founded in 1886.
**Meaning 2** — The noun adds -er to the slang verb goon, meaning to edge and masturbate for a long time until reaching a trance-like state.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/gooner (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).