gooning

1. 1
   long masturbationnounslangvulgaruncountable

   A form of masturbation in which a person holds off orgasm for a long time to reach a hypnotic, trance-like state, sometimes with the help of drugs.

   On the forum, men described gooning sessions that stretched past six hours, with several screens of porn running while they held off orgasm.

   The researcher argued that gooning is less about reaching orgasm than about the hazy, almost hypnotic state that comes from putting it off.

   Note

   Edging is its close cousin and its starting point: both hold off orgasm, but edging is done for a stronger finish, while gooning is after the trance itself. John Sherman, writing in BuzzFeed News, reports that accounts of it often liken it to a kind of physical speaking in tongues. In looser online use it can mean masturbating in general, with no delay or trance implied. Source

   Checked 3 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

   • Gooning builds on edging; both delay orgasm, but edging seeks a stronger climax while gooning seeks the trance-like experience. melmagazine.com
   • John Sherman wrote in BuzzFeed News that explanations of gooning often compare it to physical speaking in tongues. web.archive.org
2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of goon.

   Instead of playing hockey, the visitors spent the third period gooning, starting a fight at every whistle.

   The transport company was sued for gooning teenagers from their beds in the middle of the night.

   Note

   Each meaning of the verb goon passes into this form, from bullying opponents on the ice to the two practices that now also stand as nouns: the forced transport of teenagers and the prolonged-masturbation practice. The transport meaning takes the young person seized as its object, and the hockey meaning can take the opponents as one, though it often stands alone, as in they spent the third period gooning.

3. 3
   nounslangneologismuncountable

   The practice of forcibly taking a troubled teenager, at the parents' request and often at night, to a boot camp, wilderness program or similar residential facility, which critics liken to kidnapping.

   His parents paid for the gooning, and two strangers drove him to a wilderness program before dawn.

   Survivors of gooning are urging state lawmakers to license the companies that carry it out.

   Note

   Inside the industry the official term is transporting, or secure transport; gooning is the blunter slang name, built on goon, the hired heavy: the teenager is, in effect, taken by goons. As members of the US Congress have pushed for rules on the trade, the slang name has moved out of the trade and into news coverage. Source

   Checked 30 Oct 2026 · 5 facts

   • The formal name for the practice is transporting. en.wiktionary.org
   • Secure transport is another established name for the industry. en.wikipedia.org
   • Gooning is slang referring to being taken by goons. en.wiktionary.org
   • Goon can mean a hired enforcer. en.wiktionary.org
   • Congressional efforts to regulate the trade have been covered in news using the word gooning. unsilenced.org

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