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n. (context India English) Hired goon.
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Goonda is a term in Indian English, Pakistani English, and Bangladeshi English for a hired thug. It is both a colloquial term and defined and used in laws, generally referred to as Goonda Acts.
Goonda is a 1984 Telugu film directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy. This film stars Chiranjeevi, Radha, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Rao Gopal Rao and Allu Ramalingiah. The film was dubbed into Hindi as Daku Raja.
Usage examples of "goonda".
Hired thugs, undoubtedly, or goondas as they were known in these parts.
Scowling goondas drew their guns, placing Seven squarely in their sights.
Escorted by the three looming goondas, Seven followed the portly Englishman into a spacious yet shadowy rotunda lit only by swatches of sunlight that fell from the fractured dome high above onto the bare stone floor.
Sanjay told me that even the pathetic slum-dwellers who paddled out from the chawls each evening to steal the blue and red navigation lights from the river for some purpose of their own paid a commission to the goondas.
Early each morning, it would be full of the best‑looking ne'er‑do‑wells in the city, all the goondas and taxi‑drivers and petty smugglers and racecourse tipsters who had once, long ago, arrived in the city dreaming of film stardom, of grotesquely vulgar homes and black money payments.