Hoodlum
noun
A person who is violent and commits crimes.
The city has been plagued by a group of hoodlums causing trouble late at night.
Often appears as...
- local hoodlums
- teenage hoodlums
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who is violent and commits crimes.
The city has been plagued by a group of hoodlums causing trouble late at night.
Often appears as...
- local hoodlums
- teenage hoodlums
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Hoodlum has a very negative meaning, suggesting violent and criminal behavior.
The once peaceful neighborhood is now worried about the hoodlums on the streets.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
Hoodlum is informal and often used in casual conversation or the media, not formal documents.
I heard that some hoodlums were causing chaos at the mall yesterday.
Pro Tip 3/3Age Implication
Often implies younger individuals, sometimes used to describe troublesome youth in groups.
A band of teenage hoodlums was caught vandalizing the public park.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Hoodlum has a very negative meaning, suggesting violent and criminal behavior.
The once peaceful neighborhood is now worried about the hoodlums on the streets.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
Hoodlum is informal and often used in casual conversation or the media, not formal documents.
I heard that some hoodlums were causing chaos at the mall yesterday.
Pro Tip 3/3Age Implication
Often implies younger individuals, sometimes used to describe troublesome youth in groups.
A band of teenage hoodlums was caught vandalizing the public park.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Hoodlum has a very negative meaning, suggesting violent and criminal behavior.
The once peaceful neighborhood is now worried about the hoodlums on the streets.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
Hoodlum is informal and often used in casual conversation or the media, not formal documents.
I heard that some hoodlums were causing chaos at the mall yesterday.
Pro Tip 3/3Age Implication
Often implies younger individuals, sometimes used to describe troublesome youth in groups.
A band of teenage hoodlums was caught vandalizing the public park.
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Are Elvish, Klingon,...
and they're not just collections of fabricated slang like the Nadsat lingo that the teen hoodlums in "A Clockwork Orange" speak, where "droog" from Russian happens to mean "friend." What makes conlangs real languages isn't the number of words they have. It helps, of course, to have a lot of words. Dothraki has thousands of words.
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The $8 billion iPod PIPE...
are merely surprised that it doesn't get compounded for inflation every year. Now when this law first passed, the world's hottest MP3 player could hold just 10 songs. And it was a big Christmas hit. Because what little hoodlum wouldn't want a million and a half bucks-worth of stolen goods in his pocket.
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Are Elvish, Klingon,...
and they're not just collections of fabricated slang like the Nadsat lingo that the teen hoodlums in "A Clockwork Orange" speak, where "droog" from Russian happens to mean "friend." What makes conlangs real languages isn't the number of words they have. It helps, of course, to have a lot of words. Dothraki has thousands of words.
Video examples
The $8 billion iPod PIPE...
are merely surprised that it doesn't get compounded for inflation every year. Now when this law first passed, the world's hottest MP3 player could hold just 10 songs. And it was a big Christmas hit. Because what little hoodlum wouldn't want a million and a half bucks-worth of stolen goods in his pocket.
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Quote examples
Brendan I. Koerner
American Author
A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
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Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of Molenbeek in Brussels, has been operating in plain sight since the 1990s, planning, plotting and carrying out dozens of elaborate jihadi missions from Afghanistan to Algeria.
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Bobby Seale
American Activist
People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.
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Howie Long
American Football Player
I really don't know what would have happened if my uncle hadn't taken me in. He took a hoodlum and turned him into a student-athlete from Milford.
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Nat King Cole
American Musician
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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Jerome Charyn
American Author
What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.
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Brigitte Bardot
French Actress
Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
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Kristen Wiig
American Actress
I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure.
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Bobby Seale
American Activist
I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.
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E-40
American Musician
I'm what they call an intelligent hoodlum.
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Brendan I. Koerner
American Author
A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
Quote examples
Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of Molenbeek in Brussels, has been operating in plain sight since the 1990s, planning, plotting and carrying out dozens of elaborate jihadi missions from Afghanistan to Algeria.
Quote examples
Bobby Seale
American Activist
People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.
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Howie Long
American Football Player
I really don't know what would have happened if my uncle hadn't taken me in. He took a hoodlum and turned him into a student-athlete from Milford.
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Nat King Cole
American Musician
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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Jerome Charyn
American Author
What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.
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Brigitte Bardot
French Actress
Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
Quote examples
Kristen Wiig
American Actress
I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure.
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Bobby Seale
American Activist
I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.
Quote examples
E-40
American Musician
I'm what they call an intelligent hoodlum.
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