gooning

gooning
 v.— «The group of teenagers called it “gooning,” authorities say, slang for the beating in the street of unsuspecting people they perceived to be drunk or elderly or otherwise defenseless.» —“Teenager held in fatal ‘gooning’” by Jeff Coen, Glenn Jeffer Chicago Tribune Aug. 5, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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