GONER (goner)

Pronunciation (US):

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: goner   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does goner mean? 

• GONER (noun)
  The noun GONER has 1 sense:

1. a person in desperate straits; someone doomed

  Familiarity information: GONER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person in desperate straits; someone doomed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

goner; toast

Context example:

one mistake and you're toast

Hypernyms ("goner" is a kind of...):

desperate (a person who is frightened and in need of help)

 Context examples 

There is a cost associated with making these traits, says Poethig, senior author of the report, “but the plant needs them, otherwise it’s a goner. Dan showed: no ants, no plants. The plant is eaten by everything from grasshoppers to mice. So there’s a tradeoff happening. And what we found is that these traits seem to have evolved on the back of a preexisting pathway that governs a developmental transition in plants.###!!!###

(Between ants and acacias, timing is everything, National Science Foundation)