# Goon, you're free! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 29, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240 "2025-11-29T22:12:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/41 "2025-12-01T00:40:25Z")
Probably not, although the plush flying monkeys probably are. Those cups do look like they’d more attractive to kids than most of [the other merch available](https://thedirect.com/article/wicked-popcorn-buckets-guide-regal-amc-cinemark-where-to-buy). I keep looking but I still can’t find any controversy over this than the one Daily Dot article you cited quoting a bunch of guys on Reddit. For some reason they didn’t cite cumslutorlando90. All over the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/42 "2025-12-01T01:05:32Z")
I’ve known of “gooning” as a masturbation term for at least a year now\[1\], probably from hanging out on Reddit and Discord. Since then, I’ve seen it used in various YouTube videos and other such media. Though it used to have a more specific meaning in that context, it’s shifted to just general “jackin’ it a lot” most of the time. Will it still be in common parlance in another five years? No clue but it’s a common term among the younger set now and the looser definition means it gets used more commonly. * * * 1. Google Trends suggests it started really taking off in early 2024 ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/43 "2025-12-01T10:34:27Z")
That is what I was going to post. “Goon” + drink = box wine. I assume the OP was not aware of this, in which case, fair enough, I guess (but why go to masturbation?) ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/44 "2025-12-01T10:55:24Z")
this concrete-comp. never gets old (Chile) [![](https://i.postimg.cc/RZ2qQ5ZQ/image.png) ](https://i.postimg.cc/RZ2qQ5ZQ/image.png) [![](https://i.postimg.cc/y6rKShdc/image.png) ](https://i.postimg.cc/y6rKShdc/image.png) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/45 "2025-12-01T11:58:08Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > poor kerning Also known as ‘keming’ ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/46 "2025-12-01T12:17:56Z")
Thread winner for sure. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/47 "2025-12-01T13:26:37Z")
Regarding the “L” and “I” running together to make an unintentional “u”, I recall an old issue of _Fantastic Four_ where The Thing flicks his finger and wreaks havoc (‘cause, you know, he’s so strong). Even though the letters were carefully drawn as part of the panel, and _couldn’t_ have run together, they still spelled the word “FLIK” rather than “FLICK” to avoid even the slightest possibility of an accidental obscenity. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/48 "2025-12-01T17:13:36Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Once you learn to notice bad kerning (too much space between the ‘c’ and the ‘e’ in offices), Also between the C and I in city. There is an OAV titled レザーマン (Leatherman) A box set imported into the US has a hand drawn title so badly kerned it has been offered for sale as _Lea Therman_. [![](https://adultdvdking.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/leatherman1649230847.jpg) ](https://adultdvdking.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/leatherman1649230847.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/49 "2025-12-01T17:22:33Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Also between the C and I in city. ARGH! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/50 "2025-12-01T17:23:01Z")
> Goon, you’re free! And here I was, thinking you were just celebrating the end of No Nut November. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/51 "2025-12-01T18:13:07Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > There is an OAV For those, like me, who wondered: **[Original video animation - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_video_animation)**. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/52 "2025-12-01T21:56:07Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Try searching for the form “gooning”. Some of the more mainstream hits: > **[Oxford English Dictionary](https://www.oed.com/?tl=true)** > > The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English. The OED does not list GOON with that alternative meaning, so despite some popular media, it has not yet caught on commonly. > [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I would have thought that the need for recent articles to explain a term that they didn’t think their readers would know says exactly the opposite. Exactly, that sort of slang comes and goes- and in any case, the words used were “go on” and even if read as Goon, that is not the same as ‘gooning”. > [@Zoobi](#): > > I’ll take that bet. Goon has two main definitions now, like it or not. So, according to the OED it does have SEVEN definitions, but none of them that slang term. > [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Probably not, although the plush flying monkeys probably are. I used to say- “Not my circus, not my monkeys- my monkeys wear little jackets with matching fezzes” and few caught my meaning. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/53 "2025-12-01T23:05:22Z")
Slang terms can be very transient- some decades ago, I was talking to two kids of my close friend- they used the term “a real George”, and they said it meant someone stupid and goofy. It was common among the kids there.- Where did it come from? Why that bastion of classical education- a Bugs Bunny cartoon, with a takeoff on “Of Mice and Men” where the cartoon character says “I’ll hug hm and squeeze him, and call him George”. I was amazed. (for those not having read that wonderful but sad book\*, Lenny is the big mentally challenged guy and George his smarter buddy). (\*also a decent film) Get a list of common slang terms of say the 1950s- and some will leave you puzzled. Here are a few of 2025 new slang terms I have never heard- “Periodt, Mid, Touch Grass” and those came up as COMMMON! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/54 "2025-12-01T23:37:13Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Here are a few of 2025 new slang terms I have never heard- > > “Periodt, Mid, Touch Grass” and those came up as COMMMON! Periodt: more than 16 years old > **[Periodt | Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/periodt)** > > Periodt, or Period't, is a purposely misspelled variation on the word "period," which means to conclude one's thought. The extra "T" is used to both add em Mid: more than 6 years old > **[Mid (Slang) | Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mid-slang)** > > Mid is a slang term meaning "mediocre" or "mid-tier" quality. The slang word was initially used in cannabis culture to define the grade of marijuana, and l Touch grass: more than 10 years old > **[Touch Grass | Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/touch-grass)** > > Touch Grass, or Touch Some Grass, is a popular online insult and alternative way of telling someone to "go outside," implying they're spending too much tim People, you are going to have to stop believing the tagline that the SDMB has some of the hippest people in the planet. In general, we are exactly as out of touch as you would expect a group where 50-year-olds are some of the youngest members to be. Stop acting suprised that you are completely unfamiliar with what’s popular with the under-40s. I’ve definitely ran into “mid” and “touch grass” many times, and am pretty sure that I vaguely remember seeing “periodt” used in meme images before. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/55 "2025-12-01T23:59:16Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > People, you are going to have to stop believing the tagline that the SDMB has some of the hippest people in the planet. A-fucking-men. I was never hip, like, at any point in my life, and I use modern slang that I recently realized was modern maybe ten years ago. (Can we still say “baller”?) But “mid” and “touch grass” are pretty ubiquitous. My husband works with teenagers so I always get the dankest memes. He made one of his kids nearly fall out of their chair when she mentioned Chappel Roan, saying, “You’ve probably never heard of her,” and he started singing “Hot to Go” with the hand motions. She was greatly disturbed (not the least because he can’t sing.) You can’t really predict which slang terms are a flash in the pan and which will stick. I was watching a show about sitcoms talking about “jumping the shark” and I realized I didn’t remember where it came from. There are a ton of people who use that phrase who never watched Happy Days. Yet I’m fairly certain “jump the shark” is here to stay. I’m guessing “stan” isn’t going anywhere either because I’m old enough to know where it came from but many from younger generations use it. (I’ve never heard goon used that way. I’ve always found that word unsettling and this doesn’t help.) Let’s just all hope for parents’ sanity that “6-7” dies a quick death. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/56 "2025-12-02T00:50:07Z")
I love it when you guys teach me new ways to annoy/impress the grandkids. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/57 "2025-12-02T01:06:26Z")
You…you plan on bring up gooning to the grandkids? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/58 "2025-12-02T01:13:16Z")
If necessary. 😈 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/59 "2025-12-02T03:16:13Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > People, you are going to have to stop believing the tagline that the SDMB has some of the hippest people in the planet. Not hip, but generally smarter than the average bear. And I am not “hip’ at all. > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > You can’t really predict which slang terms are a flash in the pan and which will stick. True. I admit that. > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I’m guessing “stan” isn’t going anywhere either I have never heard it in that context, to me “stan” means those nations like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/60 "2025-12-02T03:37:23Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I have never heard it in that context, to me “stan” means those nations like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, Since the OED is your standard of determining if a word has caught on, “stan” has officially worded > **[Eminem's "Stan" is in the Oxford English Dictionary](https://www.revolt.tv/article/2017-06-01/28297/eminems-stan-is-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary)** > > The rap world has used the word for nearly 20 years, and the Oxford Dictionary has caught up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240.md?page=4)