rooned

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adjective

Ruined; utterly spoiled or destroyed.

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Meanings

adjectiverooned (not comparable)
  1. Australiacolloquialnot comparableRuined; utterly spoiled or destroyed.

    We will all be rooned because readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic are not being taught proper no more.

    2014, Bernie Dowling, 7 Shouts: My Shout Book 1
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    There is a sense that 'we'll all be rooned' no matter what action is taken. That the War on Terror is exacerbating the problem rather than alleviating it.

    2007, Aidan Carvill, Everyone's a Breather!: Open Source Code to Humanity, page 3

    On the one hand, 'we'll all be rooned', it is such a catastrophe; and on the other, let's get to it, there's still so much to be done.

    2014, Timothy Neale, Crystal McKinnon, Eve Vincent, History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies, page 265

Origin

From "we'll all be rooned" (i.e. ruined), the refrain of a pessimistic character in John O'Brien's 1921 poem Said Hanrahan.

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