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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.