Meaning & use
goofballs
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Silly or foolish people who act in a clownish, harmless way.
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The two goofballs kept making faces at each other during the meeting.
Our coach is a total goofball, always cracking jokes before practice.
A note on using this word
In older American slang, 'goofball' was also a term for a barbiturate pill, a sense now largely obsolete outside period fiction.
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clownsjokers
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