goon

noun, originally US, a stolid, dull or stupid person (“goon, n.” OED)

“She didn’t want the goons coming in, looking in.”

“You can tell a Wolfe Islander by they’re always doing this, okay. They’re always looking at their watch. And if they’re in town or here, but their whole lives are governed by the boat. Some curse and swear at it, you know. ‘Oh, who’s on it? Ah, why is it late? Who are the goons?’. Or you accept it and relax with it.”