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Definition of hooligan in English: hooligannoun ˈhuːlɪɡ(ə)nˈhuləɡən A violent young troublemaker, typically one of a gang. (多指帮派成员)小流氓,青少年歹徒 as modifier hooligan behaviour Example sentencesExamples - The hooligans also vandalised changing rooms at a nearby school.
- A 10-year-old girl fighting for her life after being thrown from an unsaddled horse had just rescued the animal from a gang of hooligans and was trying to take it to safety when the accident occurred.
- Football violence has increased markedly in the city in recent years and there have been numerous outbreaks of trouble between rival hooligan gangs.
- Their peace of mind has been shattered by young hooligans who use the derelict estate as their playground.
- The Japanese authorities had feared an invasion of English hooligans, but there has been little trouble so far.
- Residents are being driven out of their homes by young yobs and hooligans who are making their lives a misery.
- Although hard, the work was rewarding and enjoyable: I spent most of my time playing sports or going out on field trips with gangs of little hooligans.
- The government is to get tough on hooligans who cause mayhem with fireworks.
- Young hooligans face being barred from Otley as part of a crackdown on crime in the town centre.
- The hotel was banned from serving late drinks 20 years ago after drunken hooligans made life a misery for residents.
- A drunken hooligan who smashed a glass into a motorist's face has been jailed for 18 months.
- Our evidence of the calibre of rank and file terrorists does not support the view that they are mindless hooligans drawn from the unemployed and the employable
- Officers have been given the go-ahead to impose curfews and exclusion zones on young hooligans.
- He said: "Obviously, the repeated vandalism of the statue is of great concern and hopefully the mindless hooligans responsible will be caught."
- There was nothing unusual about any of this and no doubt the hooligan gangs of both clubs were eager for more trouble after the game.
- Seventy people, if you can call a screaming mob of hooligans human in any meaningful sense of the word, have been arrested for their role in the destruction of 18,000 books and 30,000 manuscripts.
- But to label the whole Asian community for the acts of a minority is nearly as senseless as labelling every football fan as a hooligan.
- A gang of teenage hooligans has turned a quiet Carroll Gardens park in into a war zone.
- She said the police should have done more to stop the hooligans.
- The hooligan element has re-emerged at every level of football.
Synonyms hoodlum, thug, lout, delinquent, tearaway, vandal, ruffian, rowdy, troublemaker 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
OriginLate 19th century: perhaps from Hooligan, the surname of a fictional rowdy Irish family in a music-hall song of the 1890s, also of a cartoon character. The Hooligans were a fictional rowdy Irish family in a music hall song of the 1890s, and a comic Irish character called Hooligan appeared in a series of adventures in the magazine Funny Folks. One or other may have given their name to the hooligan, a phenomenon who made his debut in newspaper reports of cases in police courts in 1898. The football hooligan is first mentioned in the mid 1960s. See also thug, vandal
Definition of hooligan in US English: hooligannounˈho͞oləɡənˈhuləɡən A violent young troublemaker, typically one of a gang. (多指帮派成员)小流氓,青少年歹徒 as modifier hooligan behavior Example sentencesExamples - Their peace of mind has been shattered by young hooligans who use the derelict estate as their playground.
- He said: "Obviously, the repeated vandalism of the statue is of great concern and hopefully the mindless hooligans responsible will be caught."
- The hotel was banned from serving late drinks 20 years ago after drunken hooligans made life a misery for residents.
- The hooligans also vandalised changing rooms at a nearby school.
- Football violence has increased markedly in the city in recent years and there have been numerous outbreaks of trouble between rival hooligan gangs.
- But to label the whole Asian community for the acts of a minority is nearly as senseless as labelling every football fan as a hooligan.
- There was nothing unusual about any of this and no doubt the hooligan gangs of both clubs were eager for more trouble after the game.
- A drunken hooligan who smashed a glass into a motorist's face has been jailed for 18 months.
- A 10-year-old girl fighting for her life after being thrown from an unsaddled horse had just rescued the animal from a gang of hooligans and was trying to take it to safety when the accident occurred.
- Residents are being driven out of their homes by young yobs and hooligans who are making their lives a misery.
- Seventy people, if you can call a screaming mob of hooligans human in any meaningful sense of the word, have been arrested for their role in the destruction of 18,000 books and 30,000 manuscripts.
- Our evidence of the calibre of rank and file terrorists does not support the view that they are mindless hooligans drawn from the unemployed and the employable
- Although hard, the work was rewarding and enjoyable: I spent most of my time playing sports or going out on field trips with gangs of little hooligans.
- She said the police should have done more to stop the hooligans.
- Young hooligans face being barred from Otley as part of a crackdown on crime in the town centre.
- Officers have been given the go-ahead to impose curfews and exclusion zones on young hooligans.
- The hooligan element has re-emerged at every level of football.
- The Japanese authorities had feared an invasion of English hooligans, but there has been little trouble so far.
- The government is to get tough on hooligans who cause mayhem with fireworks.
- A gang of teenage hooligans has turned a quiet Carroll Gardens park in into a war zone.
Synonyms hoodlum, thug, lout, delinquent, tearaway, vandal, ruffian, rowdy, troublemaker
OriginLate 19th century: perhaps from Hooligan, the surname of a fictional rowdy Irish family in a music-hall song of the 1890s, also of a cartoon character. |