goon vs joke

goon

noun
  • A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish. 

  • One hired to legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility. 

  • A Sino-Japanese kanji pronunciation layer, considered the first Sino-Japanese kanji reading type imported into Japan. 

  • A member of the comedy web site Something Awful. 

  • Cheap or inferior cask wine. 

  • An enforcer or fighter. 

  • A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp. 

  • A wine flagon or cask. 

  • A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence. 

verb
  • To legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility. 

  • To enter a trance-like state after masturbating and edging for a long period of time. 

  • To act like a goon; to act in an intimidating or aggressive way towards opponents. 

joke

noun
  • A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham. 

  • An amusing story. 

  • The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one 

  • Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected. 

  • Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness. 

verb
  • To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously. 

  • To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with. 

How often have the words goon and joke occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )