A fork of Rural Dictionary
Damaged goods ; is when your fucked in the head.
Penny : "Your mum is damaged goods". Me : "if a horse is a horse".
Someone who has self harm scars and is afraid of getting into any relationship. However this someone only thinks of themselves as damaged goods. But they really aren’t.
Emily: I’m just damaged goods...
1) Item/s that were expected to be in good (if not brand new) condition, but were discovered eventually that they weren't. 2)Someone who was once healthy and/or normal but isn't anymore due to unfortunate, traumatic events in his/her life (i.e. physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, drug abuse...u get it).
A person, who makes themselves emotionally unavailable due to unfortunate circumstances in the past. Which in turn makes their significant other pay for the mistakes they had to deal with in the past. Damaged goods tend to run away from their problems instead of facing them head on and tend to make assumptions about present situations due to experiences from the past.
"Why is he being such a dick to me? Did I do something wrong?" "Naw, he's just damaged goods." "Why does he have such a problem communicating with me? "Duh, cuz he's damaged goods!" "Damn this girl is playing some serious head games" "Yo bro, it's cuz she's damaged goods"
Someone who is now undateable or not attractive because of past or current circumstances, but would otherwise be attractive. Someone who has ruined their career because of at least one exposed mistake that has permanently changed their reputation and/or credibility.
Becky is damaged goods after she had John's baby in high school. Nobody wants to date her. Michelle's fine but she got a train ran on her at that party. I wouldn't fuck anymore. She's damaged goods. Sam has 4 kids by 4 different women, even though he's handsome, he's damaged goods. Andre was offered a scholarship to University of Florida for basketball, but he was caught stealing, so he had his scholarship revoked and is damaged goods.
When a guy or a girl had already been married and had children and now he/she is divorced and looking for another partner.
-Why are you still not with that guy? He's hot! -Nah I don't want no damaged goods.