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  • noun India Hired goon.

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Examples

  • 'He (Thackeray) is a' goonda '(goon) and deserves punishment similar to criminals.

    AndhraCafe.com 2008

  • Innocents were being harassed through police at some places by framing them in false cases, PSA was invoked indiscriminately and NC workers were resorting to their old goonda tactics.

    'Taliban presence - fear-psychosis for political purposes��� :Mehbooba 2009

  • I think the scarf looks absolutely adorable on him, but V insists that it makes him look like the neighborhood goonda (thug) and keeps saying, "kya, Dalu Bhai", and "kassa kai, Dalu Dada" to him!

    Archive 2007-06-01 Nupur 2007

  • The coloured mania has also affected Bollywood filmmakers and there, we find they always make it a point to get a dark man to play the villain, the rapist, the goonda, and mafia man, only to be beaten up by fair-skinned heroes.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • The coloured mania has also affected Bollywood filmmakers and there, we find they always make it a point to get a dark man to play the villain, the rapist, the goonda, and mafia man, only to be beaten up by fair-skinned heroes.

    Sense & Sensuality 2009

  • He said that ragging has achieved an alarming situation in the country with many brilliant students losing their life and career at the whims and fancies of a few ‘goonda’ elements.

    Candle light protest against Aman Kachroo���s killers organized in Jammu Press Club 2009

  • Two years ago, the buzz in Lucknow and elsewhere in the state was the overriding desire and concern to get rid of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and his goonda raj.

    Mayawati Magic 2009

  • "In a way, Rai is just like any other goonda in Bangalore," Umesh says.

    The Godfather of Bangalore 2008

  • W. Ali: We both know the Pakistani mentality when they're talking about whoever is running the country, they say, "At least he's the lesser goonda [thug/gangster] than the other."

    Wajahat Ali: Dueling Partners: Pakistan and America 2008

  • But this was no ordinary mugging: Mr. Kumar's attacker was a goonda

    In the Shadows of India's Loan Boom 2008

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