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Goner   /gˈɑnər/   Listen
Goner

noun
1.
A person in desperate straits; someone doomed.  Synonym: toast.  "One mistake and you're toast"



Gone

adjective
1.
Destroyed or killed.  Synonyms: done for, kaput.
2.
Dead.  Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed.  "Our dear departed friend"
3.
Well in the past; former.  Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone.  "Dreams of foregone times" , "Sweet memories of gone summers" , "Relics of a departed era"
4.
No longer retained.






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"Goner" Quotes from Famous Books



... answered Don, with a laugh. "Our guns are loaded with small shot, and they would hardly penetrate a bear's thick skin. If he should come at us, I'd be a goner, sure, for I am so stiff I couldn't run to save my life. But I don't think we'll find——Halloo! Bert, just ...
— The Boy Trapper • Harry Castlemon

... Marster's room's a heap better'n his company," said Tom Anderson, "an' I'se a goner too. Dis yer freedom's too good to be lef' behind, wen you's got a chance to git it. I won't stop to bid ole Marse ...
— Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted • Frances E.W. Harper

... awful scare, old fellow, you sure did! I thought you was a goner, and felt like jumping in, too, myself. It would be mighty tough to lose you, Maurice, mighty tough!" he kept saying as ...
— The House Boat Boys • St. George Rathborne

... especially considering that it was fired from the saddle, and at full gallop too. I congratulate you on it, old man. And, before I forget it, let me thank you for saving my life. If you had not fired as promptly as you did he would have had me, sure as fate, and I should have been a goner— eh, what?" ...
— The Adventures of Dick Maitland - A Tale of Unknown Africa • Harry Collingwood

... none—leastways, I dunno's I be," he muttered, doubtfully. "But hit's plumb lucky I got rid o' thet-thar dum black bag jest as I did, or I'd 'a' been a goner, shore!" ...
— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily



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