gooning
v.— «He got his group off the ground by gooning leftists and militant workers on behalf of the San Francisco labor tops during the 1983 Greyhound strike.» —“Reformists Cover for Teamster Bureaucracy” Worker’s Vanguard (New York City) July 8, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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