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  • noun Plural form of goomba.

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Examples

  • Unless you cry, whine, send me e-mail messages begging me to feature you, send e-cards with links to the blogs you want linked, tell me how I don't love you, tell me how I don't like you, tell me how sad you are, tell me how I don't read you even though you know I did because I commented at some point, and / or try to muscle me with threats of large "goombas" paying a visit.

    A Pile Of Dog Bones 2009

  • Unless you cry, whine, send me e-mail messages begging me to feature you, send e-cards with links to the posts you want linked, tell me how I don't love you, tell me how I don't like you, tell me how sad you are, tell me how I don't read you even though you know I did because I commented that week, and / or try to muscle me with threats of large "goombas" paying a visit.

    A Pile Of Dog Bones 2009

  • It's a leafy green oasis in a desert of highways, tarmac and goombas.

    Graham James: Yes, I Live in New Jersey Graham James 2011

  • It's a leafy green oasis in a desert of highways, tarmac and goombas.

    Graham James: Yes, I Live in New Jersey Graham James 2011

  • Log in to Reply natedog (UID#1905) on December 2nd, 2009 at 10: 50 am goombas, dude. not people

    Baby mario | My[confined]Space 2009

  • It's a leafy green oasis in a desert of highways, tarmac and goombas.

    Graham James: Yes, I Live in New Jersey Graham James 2011

  • It's a leafy green oasis in a desert of highways, tarmac and goombas.

    Graham James: Yes, I Live in New Jersey Graham James 2011

  • For every nefarious business tycoon, unsavory corporate raider or scheming hedge-fund manager depicted on the silver screen, there are scores of Italian-Americans vilified as guidos, goombas, goodfellas and, of course, godfathers.

    Hollywood's Stereotypical Villains 2011

  • More than a few respondents were advocates of swift and sure accountability, whether in the form of therapy or an avenging nastiness (fans of the latter producing Mr. Grant's home address and issuing claims of imminent visits by bat-wielding "goombas)."

    Norm Stamper: The Dog on the Elevator and New Media 2010

  • I can almost see the green pipes, the brown goombas, the black stick figures ...

    More proof of the versatility of 'Obilivion' Ben Abraham 2008

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