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    The name of which E.C. Segar cartoon character has given rise to the word that can mean a foolish person or, in US slang, a hired thug?

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    GOON Perhaps a shortened form of gooney; but more immediately from the name of a subhuman creature called Alice the Goon in a popular cartoon series by E. C. Segar (1894-1938), American cartoonist (creator of Popeye).

    Aug 21 01, 12:27 PM

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