gooner

plural gooners

1. InternetAn individual who practices gooning (a form of masturbation that involves edging for a long period of time).

   By ruining orgasms along the way, a gooner can extend the overall length of their masturbation session.

   2022 October 3, Lauren Beller, “G is for Gooning”, in Medium, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2022

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   I am likely both too repressed and too vanilla to ever be a gooner of any distinction, but the term speaks to the existence of a community of men for whom masturbation is a serious and important aspect of their sexuality.

   2018 July 18, John Sherman, “Why Some Guys Like Jerking Off Together”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022

   Instead, a gooner remains “deeply in the bliss of masturbation,” Christfister continues, submitting themselves to an unrelenting cycle of tease and denial.

   2020 November 21, Michael Stahl, “The Psychedelic Science of 'Gooning' — Or Masturbating Into a Trance”, in MEL Magazine, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2022

   The gooner goons to reach the “goonstate”: a supposed zone of total ego death or bliss that some liken to advanced meditation, the attainment of which compels them to masturbate for hours, or even days, at a time.

   2025 November 29, Daniel Kolitz, “The Goon Squad: Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation”, in Harper's Magazine, →ISSN

   Synonyms: bator, edger

2. broadlyderogatoryAn individual addicted to sexual or sexualized content.

   "nier automata is a gooner game" you have never played past ending a

   2024 April 3, @NiroOfBhaal, Twitter

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   This designs really good when you don’t have a gooner in your ear telling you how much they wanna fuck it

   2024 April 24, @Primekelly414, Twitter

   when you're childproofing a gooner's phone, remember to block apps like shein, youtube and amazon. they'll go desperately searching for underwear reviews or bra ads just to see an inch of the female form.

   2024 April 28, @bratti_xx, Twitter

plural gooners

1. UKslangball gamesAlternative letter-case form of Gooner (“someone connected with Arsenal Football Club”).

plural gooners

1. USethnicslurVietnam WarA Vietnamese person.

   When we replied in the affirmative, he said something to the effect of "Oh, well, ain't nobody up that way but gooners, no how." Mission accomplished.

   1984, John Trotti, Phantom Over Vietnam: Fighter Pilot, USMC, Novato, C.A.: Presidio Press, →ISBN, page 5

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   During both offensive and defensive operations the grunts occasionally encountered Vietnamese civilians. The Vietnamese were almost always referred to in the most derogatory terms— gooks, gooners, zipper-heads or zips, slopes, dinks, and slant-eyes. In contrast to the last term, round-eyes designated westerners.

   [1976, Charles R[oberts] Anderson, “Vocabulary Note”, in The Grunts, San Rafael, C.A.: Presidio Press, page xiv

plural Gooners

1. alternativeslangball gamesAlternative form of Gunner.