[
UK
/hˈɛliən/
]
NOUN
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a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man)
he chased the young hellions out of his yard
How To Use hellion In A Sentence
- Yesterday, I began reading Joan Druett's She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea (2000), and also read "A juvenile skull of the primitive ornithischian dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki from the 'Stromberg' of South Africa" (from the September 2008 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology). Stealing daylight
- Somewhat of a hellion, Watts was held in check by his tight-knit community and his father's penchant for corporal punishment.
- His demeanor suddenly changed from gentle, indulgent parent, to barking hellion.
- Have you seen the state of the hellions you'd have to teach?
- The button got quite the workout during this exercise in ersatz ‘60s hipness, with Ann-Margret as a decent Midwestern girl pretending to be a hellion so she can be published in a smut rag. VinceKeenan.com
- he chased the young hellions out of his yard
- I can't bring myself to admit that my kid is a hellion.
- She tied her hair in a ponytail and walked back to the main nursery section where all the little hellions were.
- Mozart might not have been the spendthrift hellion portrayed in the 1984 film Amadeus, but he could play the piano blindfolded, loved wooing women and wrote bawdy letters.
- His signature is the social documentary, which paints teenagers as humans rather than hellions.