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hooligan

[ UK /hˈuːlɪɡən/ ]
[ US /ˈhuɫɪɡən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a cruel and brutal fellow

How To Use hooligan In A Sentence

  • Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
  • The tartan army, for many a source of national pride as a good-natured counterpoint to prevailing hooliganism elsewhere, is now routinely derided in the press for its apparent buffoonery and lack of knowledge of the beautiful game.
  • Two years ago, he admitted the police had been caught out by a spate of petty hooliganism, but this year he said police leave had been cancelled and extra officers would be on duty until Bonfire Night and beyond.
  • Football hooligans ran riot through the town.
  • Nowadays it is the footballers who behave like oafs off the field, while rugby players act like hooligans on it.
  • Teenage hooligans have been waging a campaign against contractors on a Waterside building site.
  • A football hooligan jailed for attempting to murder a man was a danger to the public, according to a police officer who helped to snare him.
  • They were harridans, engaged in a harangue of hermeneutics, harpooning his hyperbolic sense of hagiocracy, calling him a haggard hooligan hamming up a heedless hegemonic hullabaloo. Martin Marks: Bushenschadenfreude: Where has it all Gone?
  • 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.
  • The Japanese authorities had feared an invasion of English hooligans, but there has been little trouble so far.
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