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hoo·li·gan

(ho͞o′lĭ-gən)

A tough and aggressive or violent youth.

[Origin unknown.]

hoo′li·gan·ism n.

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hooligan

(ˈhuːlɪɡən)

slang a rough lawless young person

[C19: perhaps variant of Houlihan, Irish surname]

ˈhooliganism n

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hoo•li•gan

(ˈhu lɪ gən)

n.

a ruffian or hoodlum.

[1895–1900; perhaps after the Irish surname Hooligan]

hoo′li•gan•ism, n.

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Noun

hooligan - a cruel and brutal fellow

bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo, tough

aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks

bullyboy - a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction

muscleman, muscle - a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard; "the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him"

skinhead - a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations

plug-ugly, tough guy - someone who bullies weaker people

hooligan

noun delinquent, tough, vandal, casual, ned (Scot. slang), rowdy, hoon (Austral. & N.Z.), hoodlum (chiefly U.S.), ruffian, lager lout, boot boy, yob or yobbo (Brit. slang) riots involving football hooligans

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hooligan

noun

Informal. A person who treats others violently and roughly, especially for hire:

hoodlum, ruffian, thug, tough.

Slang: goon, gorilla, hood.

Translations

مُجْرِم في عِصابَه

chuligán

bøllehooligan

Hooligan Rowdy

χούλιγκαν

hooligan houligan voyou

skemmdarvargur

teppista

chuliganizmas

huligāns

ungdomsforbryter

huligan

aylak holigansokak serserisi

小流氓

hooligan

[ˈhuːlɪgən] N → gamberro/a m/f

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hooligan

[ˈhuːlɪgən] n → hooligan m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

hooligan

n → Rowdy m

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hooligan

[ˈhuːlɪgən] n → teppista m/f, hooligan m/f inv

hooligan

(ˈhuːligən) noun

a young violent, destructive or badly-behaved person.

ˈhooliganism noun

violent or destructive behaviour especially by young people.

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What's the use of bragging about being from the North, or the South, or the old manor house in the dale, or Euclid avenue, Cleveland, or Pike's Peak, or Fairfax County, Va., or Hooligan's Flats or any place?

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His friends frequently wrangle warmly as to whether he is most like Bayard, Lancelot, or Happy Hooligan. Some say one, some the other.

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has beckoned on Nigerians not to hand over the nation to 'thieves and hooligans.'

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Nearly 100 British football hooligans have not handed in their passports -- four days A-before the World Cup kicks off.

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He definitely isn't one of society's winners, but he has his chosen family, the pack of soccer hooligans he's grown up with.

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They will be forever remembered for the sickening violence that erupted on January 10, 1981, when 100 C Crew hooligans waited for Liverpool supporters at New Street station's rail bar.

THE MIDLAND MOBS; TERROR ON THE TERRACES

I FIND it shocking that the Football League has given in to hooligans by awarding and rewarding Blackpool Football club with a point after their game with Huddersfield Town.

Good day for hooligans

The fan ID card is also very good idea as it would allow the police to keep a check on hooligans. For instance, police could take away the card of a hooligan, thus barring him from entry into a match; he would not be able to buy a ticket or enter a ground if convicted.

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