Hoodlum

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  • noun. A gangster; a thug.
  • noun. A tough, often aggressive or violent youth.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A young hectoring street rowdy; one of a gang of ruffians; a lounging, good-for-nothing, quarrelsome fellow; a rough.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow; colloquially, called also hood.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a gangster; a hired thug
  • noun. a rough or violent youth
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an aggressive and violent young criminal
    • Word Usage
    "They have Edward looking like a hoodlum from the fifties or something."
    Form
    hood  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    criminal  crook  felon  malefactor  outlaw  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    bully  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Vandal  chiseler  embezzler  gangster  goose-herd  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Mafioso  Young Turk  apache  bad boy  bandit  
    variant
    hood  
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