goofball
Americannoun
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an extremely incompetent, eccentric, or silly person.
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a pill containing a barbiturate or a tranquilizing drug.
noun
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a barbiturate sleeping pill
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a fool
Etymology
Origin of goofball
Example Sentences
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But there’s real depth in how the screenplay also shows Archie Madekwe’s charismatic aspiring singer running face-first into the contradictions of building his brand on being an internet goofball.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
Yet in “John Candy: A Life in Comedy,” Paul Myers makes the case that the actor, who died at 43 in 1994, was more than a good-natured goofball.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Adam Sandler's much-loved goofball golfer Happy Gilmore is back on the greens for the first time in nearly three decades, so watch your heads.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025
Schoenberg comes across as either self-knowing prophet or goofball.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025
There was a silence, during which I struggled for language to adequately express what I thought of this goofball advice.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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