[ UK /hˈʊdləm/ ]
[ US /ˈhʊdɫəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. an aggressive and violent young criminal
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How To Use hoodlum In A Sentence

  • She cried for one of his no-account hoodlum friends, one whom she'd barely known at all.
  • The hoodlums are smart but not too smart, and the movie sets up a pretty fair match of wits and gun-power among the various bands of ne'er-do-wells.
  • The gist is this: there's a small Scottish town plagued with young hoodlums whose violence is getting out of hand.
  • ‘And I, for one,’ replied Sara hotly, ‘will not be bullied by a jumped-up little hoodlum.’
  • The only people who use the word "hoodlum" these days are media pundits & talk radio hosts, like Beck or Limbaugh, to disparage young black/latino males. School Board Chairwoman In Trouble For Telling It Like It Is | Manolith
  • Over time, Taylor begins to enjoy life as a car-jacking hoodlum.
  • Await a bit, listen to the girl to scold: "You are big hoodlum, it is scampish as a child, your Mom just gave birth to you, you do not forget to turn round to want to glance.
  • Were it not for liberalism you would not be able to fire your tirade out against the freedom of your cultures, which is under threat no by the leftist by the rigth wing hoodlums who came from Texas, all of them God fearing and curch going decent folks dlin333 Is Secular Humanism(left wing liberalism) ruining the Western world?? I say yes. Any other thoughts? « Children Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News
  • First of all a fearless, infallible hero pitted against a bunch of hoodlums and brutal, power-crazy politicians is too stereotypical for words.
  • But why, if they can respond so zealously to this kind of pressure, can they not respond to the other kind, which requires them to deal with recidivist hoodlums, neds, antisocial juveniles or whatever the correct term is?
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