What is "hoodlums"

Usage examples of "hoodlums".

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.

Weird as it seems, as this gang of costumed hoodlums converged on Monterey that morning they were on the verge of "making it big," as the showbiz people say, and they would owe most of their success to a curious rape mania that rides on the shoulder of American journalism like some jeering, masturbating raven.

Because of the proximity of an Army base, they undoubtedly thought they were making way for a caravan of tanks, or at least something impressive and military -- and then to see an army of hoodlums being driven along the road like a herd of diseased sheep -- ah, what a nightmare for the California Chamber of Commerce.

Here was a handful of hoodlums, without status even in San Bernardino, demanding $1,000 from any journalist who wanted to hang around them for a single weekend.

Weird as it seems, as this gang of cos­tumed hoodlums converged on Monterey that morning they were on the verge of making it big, as the showbiz people say, and they would owe most of their success to a curious rape mania that rides on the shoulder of American journalism like some jeering, masturbating raven.

Nor do they wear the Brando-Dylan-Style silver-studded phantom leather jackets, commonly asso­ciated with motorcycle hoodlums and leather fetish cults.

Nothing in his experience has prepared him to face an army of half-human hoodlums, a modern-day James gang.

Here was the radio chattering crazily about the impending destruction of a California resort by an army of five hundred motorcycle hoodlums, and not even a wire-service stringer was there to get a first-hand report.

They pointed excitedly as the hoodlums came past, almost close enough to reach out and touch.

Eighty of the state's most vicious hoodlums are roaming around drunk somewhere between Sacramento and Reno, hungry for rape and pillage.

Here he was, standing out on the highway all night, sworn to protect the citizens of Bass Lake, and the very people most likely to suffer looting if the Hell's Angels ran wild were helping to get the hoodlums drunk.

Sooner or later the hoodlums would cause bad trouble, and what the hell were they doing there anyway?

It is also, a natural environment for hoodlums, brawlers, teen-age gangs and racial tension.

Compared with some of the opposition he had been up against, these hoodlums surely wouldn't count for much.