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Arsenal's performance in home matches have resulted in them having the second-highest average League attendance for an English club during the 2007–08 season, (60,069, which was 99.5% of available capacity), [7] and as of 2006, the fourth-highest all-time average attendance. [8]
Cage The Elephant – After one of their shows, a mentally ill man approached frontman Matt Shultz, hugged him and said "you have to cage the elephant".; Cake – Rather than referring to the foodstuff, the name is meant to be "like when something insidiously becomes a part of your life...[we] mean it more as something that cakes onto your shoe and is just sort of there until you get rid of it".
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. Look up goon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Goon may refer to: Slang Humans: People noted for brutality, or otherwise as targets of contempt: A guard in a prisoner of war camp (British World War II usage) An enforcer (ice hockey) A hired thug, in a goon squad Participants in gooning ...
The Oxford English Dictionary states that the origin of the word is unknown. [8] An earlier usage of gook, recorded in a slang dictionary published in 1893, defined gook as "a low prostitute". [9] The earliest use of the word in the English language comes from the name of a traditional Cornish Bonnet. [10]
The Herd was mainly active between the late 1970s and early 1990s, it still exists. [1] The Herd are a hooligan gang. The main rivals of The Herd in the 1980s and in the present day are West Ham's I.C.F., Tottenham Hotspur's Yid Army, Chelsea's Headhunters and Millwall's F-Troop (later known as the Millwall Bushwackers).
The term "goon" was reputedly coined by F. L. Allen in 1921, [17] perhaps a variant of the US slang "gooney" which had been around since at least 1872, meaning a simpleton or fool, [18] which may have derived from "gony", applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (c.1839).
An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called onomasticians . Onomastics has applications in data mining , with applications such as named-entity recognition , or recognition of the origin of names.
Anglicisation of non-English-language names was common for immigrants, or even visitors, to English-speaking countries. An example is the German composer Johann Christian Bach, the "London Bach", who was known as "John Bach" after emigrating to England.