Meaning & use
goner
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An informal term for a person or thing that is doomed, finished, or beyond saving.
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Without medical help fast, the injured hiker would have been a goner.
Once the engine caught fire, the old car was a goner.
A note on using this word
Goner has been used in informal English since at least the early 1800s to express that something is beyond recovery.
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