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hoodlums

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hoodlums.

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He gets attacked by a bunch of hoodlums who beat him up before he gets his gun out?

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A rough or violent youth.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hoodlums gathered in one view.

noun

A rough or violent youth.

noun

A gangster; a hired thug.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hoodlums.

noun

A rough or violent youth.

noun

A gangster; a hired thug.

Example sentences

1

He gets attacked by a bunch of hoodlums who beat him up before he gets his gun out?

2

But the other group also condoned the actions of the hoodlums and declined to disagree with their tactics.

3

People were going to play one way or the other, so give them an honest game and stop funding hoodlums.

4

Would the same thing have happened if the hoodlums knew that their victims could have legally been concealing a firearm?

5

A real financial hacker would: a) Figure out the IP ranges that the chase hoodlums use.

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And these hoodlums don't deserve to get off on technicalities-- the cops wouldn't collar someone they didn't know was a crook.

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Sorry, but they've reduced themselves to common hoodlums and should be treated as such.

8

The really nice Ruby people must hate being confused with the Rails ghetto hoodlums.

9

What I do tire of is the 'damn buncha hoodlums' comment cacophony that offers no contribution to the discussion.

10

Then one night some hoodlums were causing a lot of mischief in the street out front and the cops initiated a full on riot response.

11

Now, when you're boucing about collecting boar livers and rousting out hoodlums from their huts, it was quite easy to collect dozens of these things.

12

Boys walking around after dark are assumed to be hoodlums.

Quote examples

1

So I don't know where you're getting that the "other group" condoned the actions of the hoodlums.

2

"Sorry, but they've reduced themselves to common hoodlums and should be treated as such." I think you'll laugh at that some day.

3

"An unexpected result of my research on the mafia," he writes, "was to find out that mafiosi are quite incompetent at doing anything" other than shaking down legitimate businesses and enforcing trade agreements among smaller-scale hoodlums.

4

"Meaningfulness" (banned word, hehe) is an abstract quality which you attribute to things whose meaning you've successfully parsed - usually when you parse them for the first time, and you go like, "oh, so now I see what this means (to me)!" One of my favorite musicians has a pretty dark song about some teenage hoodlums committing a grisly murder over drugs...

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hoodlums in a sentence?

He gets attacked by a bunch of hoodlums who beat him up before he gets his gun out?

What does hoodlums mean?

A rough or violent youth.

What part of speech is hoodlums?

hoodlums is commonly used as noun.