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Definition of hoodlum in English: hoodlumnoun ˈhuːdləm A person who engages in crime and violence; a hooligan or gangster. they were the ‘professional’ gangsters of New York, hoodlums and racketeers a bunch of hoodlums just looking for trouble Example sentencesExamples - Over time, Taylor begins to enjoy life as a car-jacking hoodlum.
- The aim is to reduce the number of criminals who prey on tourists and get young hoodlums off the streets.
- A pair of London hoodlums, rejected by the established criminal set, execute a spate of robberies, which finally results in the death of a policeman.
- So you mean to tell me that those hoodlums are free to go after what they have been doing to my son?
- In fact, many people believe gangsters and hoodlums are vicious and violent by nature.
- Off-licences selling alcohol to underage drinkers could be targeted as tough tactics are adopted to stop teenage hoodlums terrorising a town.
- But the most horrific incident of this sort in the novel occurs when Lorraine is raped by C. C. Baker and his gang of hoodlums.
- Instead the tabloids were full of stories about gangs of hoodlums running out of control, terrorising vulnerable people.
- When he talks of cracking down on the hoodlums and thugs who make life miserable on Britain's poorest estates, people listen because they suspect he knows whereof he speaks.
- Here was a young man who had left his middle-class home to fight alongside labourers, professors, artists and hoodlums.
- The gist is this: there's a small Scottish town plagued with young hoodlums whose violence is getting out of hand.
- Doesn't such an attitude encourage hoodlums to commit such crimes again and again?
- Suddenly a gang of young hoodlums enters, led by a thug named Frankie McCarthy.
- He was a gangster, a hoodlum, a thug: much less creative than his dad.
- One particularly edgy sequence involves the hijacking of a transit bus by a young hoodlum, who's then frustrated by the unwillingness of his hostages to express themselves honestly to him.
- First of all a fearless, infallible hero pitted against a bunch of hoodlums and brutal, power-crazy politicians is too stereotypical for words.
- The hoodlums reportedly beat Palestinian villagers and vandalised their property.
- Then they saw thugs and hoodlums taking over the streets.
- Not content to leave it at that, the gang of hoodlums chased after the drunken trio.
- But this was the work of a handful of hoodlums, terrorists or just plain criminals.
Synonyms hooligan, thug, lout, delinquent, tearaway, vandal, ruffian, rowdy Australian/New Zealand larrikin informal tough, rough, bruiser, roughneck British informal yob, yobbo, bovver boy, lager lout, chav, hoodie Scottish & Northern English informal keelie, ned Australian/New Zealand informal roughie, hoon gangster, gang member, mobster, criminal, gunman, thug, racketeer, ruffian, member of a criminal gang, member of the Mafia, Mafioso, Yardie in Japan yakuza informal hitman, hatchet man, heavy, gorilla North American informal hood, goon
Origin Late 19th century: of unknown origin. Definition of hoodlum in US English: hoodlumnoun A person who engages in crime and violence; a hooligan or gangster. they were the “professional” gangsters of New York, hoodlums and racketeers a bunch of hoodlums just looking for trouble Example sentencesExamples - Not content to leave it at that, the gang of hoodlums chased after the drunken trio.
- The hoodlums reportedly beat Palestinian villagers and vandalised their property.
- Over time, Taylor begins to enjoy life as a car-jacking hoodlum.
- Doesn't such an attitude encourage hoodlums to commit such crimes again and again?
- But this was the work of a handful of hoodlums, terrorists or just plain criminals.
- But the most horrific incident of this sort in the novel occurs when Lorraine is raped by C. C. Baker and his gang of hoodlums.
- Instead the tabloids were full of stories about gangs of hoodlums running out of control, terrorising vulnerable people.
- One particularly edgy sequence involves the hijacking of a transit bus by a young hoodlum, who's then frustrated by the unwillingness of his hostages to express themselves honestly to him.
- Then they saw thugs and hoodlums taking over the streets.
- Off-licences selling alcohol to underage drinkers could be targeted as tough tactics are adopted to stop teenage hoodlums terrorising a town.
- He was a gangster, a hoodlum, a thug: much less creative than his dad.
- Here was a young man who had left his middle-class home to fight alongside labourers, professors, artists and hoodlums.
- The aim is to reduce the number of criminals who prey on tourists and get young hoodlums off the streets.
- The gist is this: there's a small Scottish town plagued with young hoodlums whose violence is getting out of hand.
- First of all a fearless, infallible hero pitted against a bunch of hoodlums and brutal, power-crazy politicians is too stereotypical for words.
- A pair of London hoodlums, rejected by the established criminal set, execute a spate of robberies, which finally results in the death of a policeman.
- Suddenly a gang of young hoodlums enters, led by a thug named Frankie McCarthy.
- In fact, many people believe gangsters and hoodlums are vicious and violent by nature.
- When he talks of cracking down on the hoodlums and thugs who make life miserable on Britain's poorest estates, people listen because they suspect he knows whereof he speaks.
- So you mean to tell me that those hoodlums are free to go after what they have been doing to my son?
Synonyms hooligan, thug, lout, delinquent, tearaway, vandal, ruffian, rowdy gangster, gang member, mobster, criminal, gunman, thug, racketeer, ruffian, member of a criminal gang, member of the mafia, mafioso, yardie
Origin Late 19th century: of unknown origin. |