goon squad | Idiomator

Meaning: (chieflyUS,informal,derogatory,idiomatic)A group of individuals serving asenforcers,bodyguards,assassins, and the like, especially personshiredfor such a purpose and usingviolent,thuggishmethods.1938September 9, Russell B. Porter, “Unionists Battle Store Employes in San Francisco”, inNew York Times, page 9:He denied charges that the union was using "goon squads," as strong-arm detachments are called on the West Coast, and asserted that any violence was provoked by the employers.1974June 17, “Shooting the Moon”, inTime:No one has ever accused Uganda's mercurial President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada of running a democracy. . . . In Kampala, the capital, much of the terror is committed by Big Daddy's personalgoon squad, the 3,000-man Public Safety Unit.2003, Michael Upchurch, "What's Cooking on Mindanao?" (Review ofDream Jungleby Jessica Hagedorn),New York Times, 5 Oct., p. A13:But becoming the "Spirit Father" to a group of cave dwellers threatened by "bandits, insurgent guerrillas" and "goon squadshired by greedy logging companies" gives him a newfound purpose in life.

Examples:

EN: The way I feel these days, I could take Adkins and his goon squad in the same ring.
ES: Tal cómo me siento estos días podría pegar a Adkins y a sus gorilas en el mismo ring.
EN: One of my earliest memories was the night when the company goon squad came in to the homes and dragged 13 Molly Maguires out and hanged them.
ES: Uno de mis primeros recuerdos es de la noche en que los matones de la compañía vinieron sacaron a rastras a 13 mineros y los colgaron.
EN: To get to Paulo with his goon squad, it'd take a genius surrounded by a troop of machine gunners, and even then, I'm not so sure.
ES: Para llegar hasta Paulo a través de sus "gorilas", se necesitaría ser un genio y llevar un escuadrón de metralletas. E incluso así podrían fallar.
EN: Out he gets with the usual goon squad and the girl.
ES: Allá va con la usual brigada de pistoleros y la joven.
EN: Thank you. Have you met the goon squad?
ES: ¿Conocéis al pelotón de bobos?
EN: Our whole neighbourhood saw him picked up by a goon squad.
ES: Los vecinos vieron cómo se lo llevaba la policía.
EN: Here comes Carl and his goon squad.
ES: Aquí viene Carl y su escuadrón de niñas.
EN: Where's the rest of the goon squad?
ES: ¿Dónde está el resto del escuadrón de matones?
EN: You just cheerfully turn the whole thing over to the goon squad?
ES: ¿Le tiras alegremente el asunto a un equipo de matones?
EN: Sakuragi's goon squad is here!
ES: Lo siento...
EN: It's the goon squad.
ES: El pelotón de imbéciles.
EN: - It's the goon squad!
ES: ¡Es la banda de matones.!
EN: I'm not interested in joining anybody's goon squad... so you and George Forehead can just step off.
ES: La cinta de sus bandidos interéseme no. Claro con su gorila.
EN: Calling out his goon squad!
ES: ¡Llamando a su tonto escuadrón!
EN: Your goon squad certainly gave you the edge in the mobile-snack business but I'm afraid we've outdone you once again.
ES: Tus pistoleros te dieron ventaja en el negocio de la venta ambulante pero te hemos superado otra vez.

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