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Hooligan   /hˈulɪgən/   Listen
Hooligan

noun
1.
A cruel and brutal fellow.  Synonyms: bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo.






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"Hooligan" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the secretaire and took a common, cheap revolver, identical with thousands of others which our criminally careless Government allows to be bought every day without the production of a licence—just a hooligan's weapon, in fact—went back and put it into the Jew's hand. He raised the hand several times, and pointed the muzzle to the temple, keeping the forefinger on the trigger. At length he let go the wrist, and said in a ...
— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith

... "That's George—the red-headed hooligan against the counter," he said. "He's been liquoring up pretty freely, and I shouldn't be surprised to find that he's got a job on tonight. He has a skiff beached below here, and I think he's waiting for ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer

... "On Hooligan Alley, as I prefer to call the street our headquarters was on, there was a row of flat 'dobe houses with red tile roofs, some straw shacks full of Indians and dogs, and one two-story wooden house with balconies a little farther down. That was where General Tumbalo, the comandante ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry

... would only talk to them in a friendly way instead of passing cruel sentences on them, you would find them quite nice to you. (Indignantly) I won't have this poor man trampled on merely because his mother brought him up as a Hooligan. I am sure nobody could be nicer than he was when he spoke ...
— Captain Brassbound's Conversion • George Bernard Shaw

... boiling pot rises to the top, and makes itself seen, concealing the pure liquid beneath, until it is skimmed off. And so we have political demagogues shouting the untenable fallacy that all men are equal, together with other flamboyant nonsense; and hooligan suffragists smashing windows. But all these are only the scum upon the outside of a great upward movement in mankind, and are not to be taken as the incontestable proof of the vicious condition ...
— Three Things • Elinor Glyn



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