goner

IPA: gˈɑnɝ

(informal) Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who is bound to die soon.
(baseball slang) A ball hit out of the playing area for a home run.

Examples of "goner" in Sentences

He’d been a goner from the day Rose had asked him to hold her.
Your mother is a "goner" - he has the nomination locked up already.
The "goner" was trying to say something, and Jimmie leaned his ear down to him.
Fred Barnes argues in The New Republic this week that absent some cataclysmic event, Bill Clinton is a "goner" against George Bush.
The "goner" prediction was the first version of the article and the news of Human Target's renewal was tacked on a little later (and after my original post).
Why argue, as some have done for the past three years, whether "goner" has the true Dublin ring if we have no idea whether the change is in ink, in pencil, in blue pencil or red?
Why are you guys talking about Hillary as a 'goner' you will be surprised when she gets the nomination and not even offer Obama the VP position, we will see who is going to laugh last.
Delaware looks to be a "goner" already with Mike Castle the likely winner (frankly, Beau Biden NOT running this year is probably very smart politically, since I will bet that Castle, once elected, will not seek re-election in 2014, when he will be 74).
"I thought it was well and truly a 'goner' and that I'd have to go without, but thanks to some really detailed and helpful instructions from Neil our astute electrician, combined with an afternoon's hard work, I'm very happy to report that I had a win!"