goonda
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editgoonda (plural goondas)
- (South Asia, colloquial) A hired thug.
- 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 31:
- ‘I cannot imagine the minds of goondas.’
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edit“goonda”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.