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- noun Plural form of
goner . (persons who are in a desperate strait or doomed)
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Examples
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BROWN: Republicans in Congress reportedly passing around a so - called goners list of 34 House seats they expect to lose on Election Day.
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The Republican members of Congress on the so-called goners list.
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If there are "goners" among damaged trees, once they are removed, turn to a local nursery for replacement stock, and often they will do the correct planting for you.
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Davis thought he and his fellow passengers were "goners" as the attack went on.
Blayney Chronicle 2009
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Keep tossing your bucks to the wind; you're goners.
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Each of those books has a chance for a reprieve as, before the box leaves the house, I peruse it to make sure all of them are “goners.”
A Progressive on the Prairie » Musing Mondays: Keepers » Print 2010
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I'm almost certain that if we went to war in Korea back in 1992 that many of my peers were goners.
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Each of those books has a chance for a reprieve as, before the box leaves the house, I peruse it to make sure all of them are “goners.”
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They are as goners as those who went and are gone, all non-surviving the same except for individual places in the sequence ... like concentration-camp inmates elatedly counting the day's droppings and corpses as if tomorrow isn't their turn next.
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After being almost goners the first leg, how did it feel to make the final five?
Amazing Race's Bill and Cathi: We Were Too Cautious on the Road 2011
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