Crossword clues for hoodlum
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoodlum \Hood"lum\, n. A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow; colloquially, called also hood. [Colloq. U.S.]
Just tell your hoodlum friends outside
You ain't got time to take no ride.
--Yakety-Yak (Song)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
popularized 1871, American English, (identified throughout the 1870s as "a California word") "young street rowdy, loafer," especially one involved in violence against Chinese immigrants, "young criminal, gangster;" it appears to have been in use locally from a slightly earlier date and may have begun as a specific name of a gang:\n\nThe police have recently been investigating the proceedings of a gang of thieving boys who denominate themselves and are known to the world as the Hoodlum Gang.
[San Francisco "Golden Era" newspaper, Feb. 16, 1868, p.4]
\nOf unknown origin, though newspapers of the day printed myriad fanciful stories concocted to account for it. A guess perhaps better than average is that it is from German dialectal (Bavarian) Huddellump "ragamuffin" [Barnhart].\n\nWhat the derivation of the word "hoodlum" is we could never satisfactorily ascertain, though several derivations have been proposed; and it would appear that the word has not been very many years in use. But, however obscure the word may be, there is nothing mysterious about the thing; ....[Walter M. Fisher, "The Californians," London, 1876]
Wiktionary
n. 1 a gangster; a hired thug 2 a rough or violent youth
WordNet
Wikipedia
Hoodlum is a 1997 crime drama film that gives a fictionalized account of the gang war between the Italian/ Jewish mafia alliance and the Black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The film concentrated on Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson ( Laurence Fishburne), Dutch Schultz ( Tim Roth), and Lucky Luciano ( Andy García).
"Hoodlum" is a 1997 single by Mobb Deep. The song also features Big Noyd and Rakim. It was featured on the Hoodlum soundtrack.
A hoodlum is a thug, usually in a group of misfits who are associated with crime or theft. The earliest reference to the word hoodlum was in the December 14, 1866 Daily Evening Bulletin. Hoodlum may also refer to:
- The Hoodlum (1919 film), starring Mary Pickford
- The Hoodlum (1951 film), an American film directed by Max Nosseck
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Hoodlum (film), a 1997 film starring Laurence Fishburne
- Hoodlum (soundtrack)
- "Hoodlum" (song), a 1997 song by Mobb Deep
- NATO codename for the Russian/Soviet Kamov Ka-26 utility helicopter
- Enemies in the video game Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
- Top Hoodlum Program created by J. Edgar Hoover in 1957
Hoodlum is the soundtrack to the 1997 American crime film, Hoodlum. It was released on August 12, 1997 through Interscope Records and consisted of a blend of hip hop and R&B music. The soundtrack peaked at 94 on the Billboard 200 and 23 on the Top R&B Albums and contained Mobb Deep's single " Hoodlum", which went to 29 on the Hot Rap Singles. None of these songs appear in the 1997 film Hoodlum.
Hoodlum is an Australian production company founded by Nathan Mayfield and Tracey Robertson. Hoodlum has a main office in Brisbane and a U.S. office in Los Angeles.
In 2014, Hoodlum's television division produced the six-part show Secrets & Lies for Network Ten Australia. Hoodlum also produced the adaptation Secrets and Lies for ABC (U.S.), which is returning for a second season in 2016.
In 2012 Hoodlum produced The Strange Calls, a six-part narrative comedy series for Australia’s ABC. In January 2015, a U.S. adaptation of The Strange Calls was ordered to pilot at NBC. Hoodlum is also working with ABC (U.S.) on a remake of Fat Cow Motel, their 13-part TV comedy series. In 2011, Hoodlum produced the FOX8 multiplatform 10-part TV drama series SLiDE, which was nominated for an International Emmy.
In 2015, Hoodlum is producing for Disney a teen sci-fi feature film Red Sands set in the Australian Outback. Hoodlum is also developing the psychological thriller Exposure for A&E Studios and Lifetime (U.S.) and supernatural drama Tidelands for ITV (U.S.).
Hoodlum Digital has created multiplatform experiences for TV and Film franchises including - The Bourne Legacy, Lost (for which they won a primetime Emmy®), SPOOKS (for which they won two BAFTA awards), Primeval (for which they won an International Emmy®), Salt, Vikings, and Texas Rising.
Usage examples of "hoodlum".
Leon had called Moynihan late Sunday night, but the piping voice of the Benet body had not been authoritative enough to get any information out of that damned Irish hoodlum.
The day before, white hoodlums had come up to Harlem and thrown gasoline bombs in their neighborhood stores and their houses, and they were out to fix honkies and nothing else.
Shadow had cornered Loune months earlier, crushing his gang of hoodlums and killing many.
How would she feel when she found out her life was worth less than a damn football game to Lutz and his hoodlum friends?
One renegade First Level citizen and four or five Service Prole hoodlums, with a stolen fifty-foot conveyer.
The Shadow knew that the murderer had backed his game by employing local hoodlums to work with Sinker and Riff.
The Bat was shorter than Oscar, more kind of pint-sized, very ratty and low-rent, with long Brylcreem greaseball hair swept back in hoodlum waves, and this brown mole just to the right of his nose.
While the hoodlum hurried to obey, Gypper coolly leveled his revolver toward Irene.
Meanwhile, Gypper and his pals were intrigued, including the hoodlum who had just returned from closing the steel door.
Hoodlums come in here to the store, and they tell me their uncle left them some stamps in an album, do I want to take a look, maybe buy them?
Am I going to look at the stamps the hoodlum brings in and call a cop?
In a symbolic effort to wipe away his past, Sammy underwent a painful, nearly yearlong medical process to remove the intricate tattoos he had acquired in his hoodlum youth.
There was absolutely no precedent, in the years after World War II, for large gangs of hoodlums on motorcycles, reveling in violence, worshiping mobility and thinking nothing of riding five hundred miles on a weekend.
He is a leading light of the Carmel-Pebble Beach set and no friend of hoodlums anywhere, especially gang rapists who invade his constituency.
Now, in the surveillance Chevrolet, the two Colombian hoodlums were searching through a collection of Polaroid photos which Carlos, an adept photographer, had taken of all persons seen to have entered the Sloane house during the past four weeks.