Crossword clues for hooligan
hooligan
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1890s, of unknown origin, first found in British newspaper police-court reports in the summer of 1898, almost certainly from the variant form of the Irish surname Houlihan, which figured as a characteristic comic Irish name in music hall songs and newspapers of the 1880s and '90s.\n\nAs an "inventor" and adapter to general purposes of the tools used by navvies and hodmen, "Hooligan" is an Irish character who occupies week by week the front of a comic literary journal called Nuggets, one of the series of papers published by Mr. James Henderson at Red Lion House. Previous to publication in London, "Hooligan" appears, I believe, in New York in a comic weekly, and in London he is set off against "Schneider," a German, whose contrainventions and adaptations appear in the Garland (a very similar paper to Nuggets), which also comes from Mr. Henderson's office. "Hooligan" and "Schneider" have been running, I should think, for four or five years. ["Notes and Queries," Oct. 15, 1898] \n\nInternationalized 20c. in communist rhetoric as Russian khuligan, opprobrium for "scofflaws, political dissenters, etc."
Wiktionary
n. (context informal pejorative English) A person that causes trouble or violence.
WordNet
Wikipedia
"Hooligan" (released 1 November 1999) is a song by English rock band Embrace, which became their sixth Top 40 single (#18 in the UK), and the first from their second album Drawn From Memory. It is one of only two singles so far to be sung entirely by Richard (the other one being "One Big Family") rather than the band's lead singer Danny.
The song "I've Been Running" is featured on the B-sides compilation Dry Kids: B-Sides 1997-2005.
A hooligan is a participant in hooliganism − unruly, destructive, aggressive and bullying behaviour.
Hooligan or Hooligans can also refer to:
- A participant in football hooliganism, among fans of association football clubs
- A participant in motorcycle hooliganism, among motorcycle riders
- Hooligan, one name for Eulachon, a fish
- Hooligan tool, another name for a Halligan bar
Johnston Farrugia (born 23 September 1980), better known by his stage name Hooligan, is a Maltese rapper. He is known for being a pioneer in hip hop music in the Maltese language. Although most of his songs are in Maltese, he has a few songs in English.
Jesús Parra Ramírez (born January 11, 1972) is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler best known under the ring name Hooligan. He is currently working under the ring name Luciferno. Ramírez has worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) since 2002 and is a founding member of the group Los Guerreros Tuareg as well as being a core member in the group that preceded it, Pandilla Guerrera. Ramírez has previously wrestled under the ring names Super Punk and Último Rebelde. He is the brother of CMLL luchador Ephesto, although it is not acknowledged on television.
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.