Tough guy

Usage examples of hooligan.

Doc Savage had explained that the very hooligan nature of the characters Cabeza and Cuerpo might make them workable.

They bust the punks for drunkeness, rowdyism, hooligan ism and whatever else grease balls do.

Only three cats had been seduced from the track by hooligans who hooted like owls to scare the cats into skidding off the track, or hollered like fishmongers, waving overripe fish or raw chicken legs.

In this nadir of civilization, this wide- craving for the savage and the stark, this night of spirit, there rose to power the basest and hitherto t despised of human types, the hooligan and the gun-man, who recognized no values but personal dominance, whose vengeful aim was to trample the civilization that spurned them, and to rule for brigandage alone a new gangster society.

I had suddenly a vision of the earringed Jewess screeching in the night and my departure for the cells in the midst of a crowd of hooligans from Apwith Lane.

It was all about the Channel tunnel and a landscape awash in Eurotrash, and French fashion victims, and acid rain, and lugubrious Belgians, and Iranian language students, and lager louts swilling Heineken, and football hooligans, and holes in the ozone layer, and Italian playboys, and South American drug lords, and Swiss banks, and AmEx Goldcards, and the greenhouse effect, and the Age of Inconsequence, and soon and so forth.

So Daniel huzzahed, as lustily as his dry pipes and creaky ribs would permit, and was astounded to see the way people came a-running: not only the Quality from their town-houses, but hooligans and Vagabonds from bonfire-strewn fields to the north, to throng around Roger and cheer him.

Taking the minor issues however the hooligans and vandals had usually been drunks or roistering louts showing off to their girlfriends or comrades.

If anything can run that blockade without collecting a missile, it's Chives in the Hooligan.

Anyhow, Aycharaych wouldn't fail to check on each newcomer, and he knows both Chives and Hooligan by sight.

The hulking hooligans actually had good ball control, Lawrence admitted grudgingly.

At this moment when our country is being bled white and is making a supreme effort to shake off the encircling hydra of the enemy, you have allowed yourselves to be fooled by a gang of nobodies, you have become a rabble, politically unconscious, surfeited with freedom, hooligans for whom nothing is enough.

The hooligans would be on the rampage hours before kick-off time and with the police being foolish enough to allow these demonstrations to go ahead there could be all kinds of trouble.

From this frozen encounter with spirit it was terror that finally released me, and I ran blindly, plungingly, in any direction I could find in far greater fear than I had run from the hooligans in Arden.

They's six guards outside with a great big sack, an' Hooligan comes quiet down the rope an' they jus' hol' the sack out an' he goes right inside.