Gooning

Synonyms for "gooning" (248 found)

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Hired by their parents, these people bring them, usually by plane, to the wilderness program. The official name for this is transporting. The slang term is gooning, as in taken by goons.

Source: wiktionary

Within what's known as the secure transport industry, it's called "gooning." Brawny men show up under the cover of darkness and force a teenager into a vehicle, taking them against their will to a boarding school, foster home or treatment center.

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Experiences like his [David Patterson's] have prompted members of the US Congress to scrutinise gooning amid a push for more state regulation over the transporting of minors from their homes to correctional institutions.

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Explanations of "gooning" often reference accessing a primal, implicitly male state of sexual excitement and indulgence, a kind of physical speaking in tongues through masturbation.

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