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One whose goose is cooked
Answer for the clue "One whose goose is cooked ", 5 letters:
goner
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Word definitions for goner in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"something dead or about to die," 1850, from gone + -er (1). From earlier expressions such as gone goose (1830), gone coon , etc.
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.