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hoodlum
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Word definitions for hoodlum in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had seen a man being chased by two Riotsville hoodlums. ▪ I had gritted my teeth during the tales of murder and mayhem committed by drunken hoodlums from north Belfast. ▪ It was some of these young hoodlums who had mocked ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an aggressive and violent young criminal [syn: hood , goon , punk , thug , tough , toughie , strong-armer ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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
Word definitions in 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a gangster; a hired thug 2 a rough or violent youth
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.