Hooligan
noun
A person who is aggressive and enjoys causing trouble, especially in public places.
A group of hooligans attacked him in the street.
Often appears as...
- football hooligan
- hooligan behavior
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A fan of a sport, particularly football (soccer), who participates in violence, vandalism or disorderly behavior.
The match was interrupted by football hooligans.
Often appears as...
- football hooligan
- hooligan element
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who is aggressive and enjoys causing trouble, especially in public places.
A group of hooligans attacked him in the street.
Often appears as...
- football hooligan
- hooligan behavior
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A fan of a sport, particularly football (soccer), who participates in violence, vandalism or disorderly behavior.
The match was interrupted by football hooligans.
Often appears as...
- football hooligan
- hooligan element
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Hooligan has a strong negative meaning and implies destructive behavior.
The store owner worried about hooligans smashing windows at night.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
Hooligan is informal, more likely used in casual conversation than formal writing.
He's just being a hooligan with his loud music at night.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Mislabeling
Be cautious not to call someone a hooligan unless their actions truly are deliberately troublesome.
They're not hooligans; they just play their games enthusiastically.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Hooligan has a strong negative meaning and implies destructive behavior.
The store owner worried about hooligans smashing windows at night.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
Hooligan is informal, more likely used in casual conversation than formal writing.
He's just being a hooligan with his loud music at night.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Mislabeling
Be cautious not to call someone a hooligan unless their actions truly are deliberately troublesome.
They're not hooligans; they just play their games enthusiastically.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Hooligan has a strong negative meaning and implies destructive behavior.
The store owner worried about hooligans smashing windows at night.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
Hooligan is informal, more likely used in casual conversation than formal writing.
He's just being a hooligan with his loud music at night.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Mislabeling
Be cautious not to call someone a hooligan unless their actions truly are deliberately troublesome.
They're not hooligans; they just play their games enthusiastically.
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Safari Live - Day 32 PIPE...
helping me I don't know I'd like to be a little higher and the seat on windy and rust here both of them I seem to have lost a lot of this sponge and you kind of sink into them and when I got out there the blanket and quite go right and so just adjust that quickly my apologies for me bouncing around in my seat like a hooligan the reason why I've come down
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Safari Live - Day 238 PIPE...
something like that where's husana he tends to just play all the time and sometimes even gets the crazies where he just runs around like a hooligan round in circles and up and down and grabs things and it's pretty funny because you see that a lot in domestic cats particularly younger domestic cats and so he's in many respects that way as
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Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
car it's just them normally and they don't have to worry about anything now our our cameramen have a camera that's probably not in the most ideal place for filming of wildlife it's great for the way we do our safari but obviously not in a way of filming wildlife and on top of that they've got these hooligan guides that move around
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Rives: A mockingbird...
It is the voice of life that calls us to come and learn. When all the little mockingbirds fly away, they're going to sound like the last four days. I will get uptown gurus, downtown teachers, broke-ass artists and dealers, and Filipino preachers, leaf blowers, bartenders, boob-job doctors, hooligans, garbage men,
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Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
Dixon is funny how they run isn't it I always loved these guys when they run around like little hooligans they kind of back in bounces up a little bit they must have a very similar run to an utter in some respects artists or said that kind of slinky bounce that they I don't
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Safari Live - Day 288 PIPE...
where Tandy antler lumber oh I mean where husana has been so they should know about each other making here she's getting upset Tandy she's hissing and growling while trying to eat at the same time it can't be easy to have a hooligan
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Safari Live - Day 329 PIPE...
lot more entertaining than what it is you can see she's kind of half watching us half not pretty awesome visual of a hyena eye that's for sure yeah you're gonna wake up now to little the little hooligans are coming back now yeah
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Shots Fired PIPE Alaska...
okay I'm just actually your name I want to talk to you what's your name I don't want this call you hey what's your name no how you doing okay the woman claims she fired a warning shot to ward off hooligans
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Controlling time through...
how moment can squeeze and dilate and how in the span of a moment the entire course of a life can change three years ago I was in China making a documentary film called hooligan Sparrow I had been
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Safari Live - Day 42 PIPE...
soft and easy to get out it's a muscle that's very nutritious now you might be able to hear what sounds like a crowd of football hooligans just behind us it isn't in fact a crowd of football
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Safari Live - Day 32 PIPE...
helping me I don't know I'd like to be a little higher and the seat on windy and rust here both of them I seem to have lost a lot of this sponge and you kind of sink into them and when I got out there the blanket and quite go right and so just adjust that quickly my apologies for me bouncing around in my seat like a hooligan the reason why I've come down
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Safari Live - Day 238 PIPE...
something like that where's husana he tends to just play all the time and sometimes even gets the crazies where he just runs around like a hooligan round in circles and up and down and grabs things and it's pretty funny because you see that a lot in domestic cats particularly younger domestic cats and so he's in many respects that way as
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
car it's just them normally and they don't have to worry about anything now our our cameramen have a camera that's probably not in the most ideal place for filming of wildlife it's great for the way we do our safari but obviously not in a way of filming wildlife and on top of that they've got these hooligan guides that move around
Video examples
Rives: A mockingbird...
It is the voice of life that calls us to come and learn. When all the little mockingbirds fly away, they're going to sound like the last four days. I will get uptown gurus, downtown teachers, broke-ass artists and dealers, and Filipino preachers, leaf blowers, bartenders, boob-job doctors, hooligans, garbage men,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
Dixon is funny how they run isn't it I always loved these guys when they run around like little hooligans they kind of back in bounces up a little bit they must have a very similar run to an utter in some respects artists or said that kind of slinky bounce that they I don't
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 288 PIPE...
where Tandy antler lumber oh I mean where husana has been so they should know about each other making here she's getting upset Tandy she's hissing and growling while trying to eat at the same time it can't be easy to have a hooligan
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 329 PIPE...
lot more entertaining than what it is you can see she's kind of half watching us half not pretty awesome visual of a hyena eye that's for sure yeah you're gonna wake up now to little the little hooligans are coming back now yeah
Video examples
Shots Fired PIPE Alaska...
okay I'm just actually your name I want to talk to you what's your name I don't want this call you hey what's your name no how you doing okay the woman claims she fired a warning shot to ward off hooligans
Video examples
Controlling time through...
how moment can squeeze and dilate and how in the span of a moment the entire course of a life can change three years ago I was in China making a documentary film called hooligan Sparrow I had been
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 42 PIPE...
soft and easy to get out it's a muscle that's very nutritious now you might be able to hear what sounds like a crowd of football hooligans just behind us it isn't in fact a crowd of football
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Quote examples
Robert Baden-Powell
English Soldier
Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.
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Lupe Fiasco
American Musician
People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.
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Brett Goldstein
The greatest thing for me is that my dad is a football hooligan. He's an obsessive football fan. And I think he wanted me to be a footballer and I wasn't. Instead, I probably disappointed him by going into the arts.
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Jacques Derrida
French Philosopher
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
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Frans Timmermans
Dutch Politician
We need a tough approach to make justice prevail and, also, because sports should not be damaged by the violence of hooligans.
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Eric Cantona
French Actor
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.
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Gregg Wallace
English Celebrity
I've been portrayed as a womanising football hooligan, but I don't recognise that person.
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Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Ryan Bader
American Mixed Martial Artist
Definitely, you don't want a bunch of hooligans representing the sport.
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Robin Leach
English Writer
I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans.
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Robert Baden-Powell
English Soldier
Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.
Quote examples
Lupe Fiasco
American Musician
People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.
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Brett Goldstein
The greatest thing for me is that my dad is a football hooligan. He's an obsessive football fan. And I think he wanted me to be a footballer and I wasn't. Instead, I probably disappointed him by going into the arts.
Quote examples
Jacques Derrida
French Philosopher
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
Quote examples
Frans Timmermans
Dutch Politician
We need a tough approach to make justice prevail and, also, because sports should not be damaged by the violence of hooligans.
Quote examples
Eric Cantona
French Actor
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.
Quote examples
Gregg Wallace
English Celebrity
I've been portrayed as a womanising football hooligan, but I don't recognise that person.
Quote examples
Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
Quote examples
Ryan Bader
American Mixed Martial Artist
Definitely, you don't want a bunch of hooligans representing the sport.
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Robin Leach
English Writer
I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans.
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