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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
goner
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ When one of the plane's engines went out, I thought I was a goner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In 1995, Major again appeared to be a political goner when inner-party squabbling threatened to bring his government down.
▪ It was past it, a goner, way past its sell-by date.
▪ Suffice to say keep your skis parallel or you're a goner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
goner

"something dead or about to die," 1850, from gone + -er (1). From earlier expressions such as gone goose (1830), gone coon, etc.

Wiktionary
goner

n. Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case.

WordNet
goner

n. a person in desperate straits; someone doomed; "I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast" [syn: toast]

Usage examples of "goner".

At some point, an indetectably tiny but quite sophisticated nanocomputer in her medial forebrain bundleprecisely like the one to be found in the brain of every living human being older than minus eight monthswould conclude that she was a goner.

With a guy like Ackley, if you looked up from your book you were a goner.

He'd have been saved if he'd had his jumper on but with it off, the top half of him also goes up in flames and poor bastard had ninety per cent third-degree burns and wouldn't have been able to walk ten steps before he was a goner.