Brendan I. Koerner

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.

American Author

Terry Glavin

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.

Canadian Author

Bobby Seale

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.

American Activist

Howie Long

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.

American Football Player

Nat King Cole

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.

American Musician

Jerome Charyn

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.

Brigitte Bardot

Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.

French Actress

Kristen Wiig

I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure.

American Actress

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

E-40

I'm what they call an intelligent hoodlum.

Hoodlum has a very negative meaning, suggesting violent and criminal behavior.

Negative Connotation

Hoodlum is informal and often used in casual conversation or the media, not formal documents.

Informal Usage

Often implies younger individuals, sometimes used to describe troublesome youth in groups.

Age Implication

 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.

Are Elvish, Klingon,...

 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.

Hoodlum

Negative Connotation

Informal Usage

Age Implication

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