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Hooligan meaning
A young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group. | Ellipsis of football hooligan. | A member of the United States Coast Guard.
Example sentences (20)
Happy Hooligan, Life reminded its readers, "became a national hero, not by making trouble, which Mr. Malik understands is the function of a hooligan, but by getting himself help.
Aides for Matt Hancock asked if they could 'lock up' former UKIP leader 'pub hooligan' pandemic, leaked WhatsApp messages show.
Nick Irish-Hooligan Harrell: Wish there was affordable homes here.
Photo by Avelino Calvar Martinez/BurstThe Hooligan: Why do I feel gross?
The new eatery will follow the sports bar set-up/menu with a more open interior, mirroring the Webster Hooligan’s East Grill.
A "football hooligan" claims to have attended a three-mile charity walk in memory of the victims of the stabbings before "things got out of hand".
A young man puffing out his chest, sporting a Stone Island jacket, wearing a cap and clutching a can of Stella or a bottle of Buckfast (depending on which side of the border you sit) have become synonymous with 'the football hooligan starter pack'.
He's currently filming the football hooligan sequel Marching Powder and will star in an adaptation of the steamy Jilly Cooper novel Rivals on Disney+.
Nicky’s arrival has amped up Sharky’s blood pressure even higher and what's worse, for an Irish reformed hooligan, he’s relying on 7-Up to try to level himself off!
Videos of ultras assaulting fans after charging towards them have been posted to X (formerly known as Twitter) by hooligan accounts, with one including the caption: “This is Istanbul”.
A notorious hooligan barred from every football ground in the country was caught sitting in the front row of the corporate section at Tottenham's new stadium.
Inevitably unable to sleep on his return to Manchester, he forced himself to watch a video of United’s 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace, and sat there “appalled” as he witnessed his star launch himself at hooligan Matthew Simmons.
Instead of seeing consequences of what they campaigned for, the Daily Mail/ Mail on Sunday are acting like a drunk, ranting hooligan at the bus stop who just hurls mindless abuse at people they don’t like.
And what triggered the black-clad hooligan?
They “made the impression of belonging to football-hooligan groups and right-wing organizations” and caused “serious damage” to property, Medic wrote in a letter to the World Jewish Congress.
Vasily “The Killer” Stepanov, the former leader of Spartak Moscow’s hooligan firm, his hooligans as “Putin’s foot soldiers” in a BBC documentary.
A member of Boca Juniors’ football hooligan gang was deported from Spain ahead of Sunday’s Copa Libertadores showdown against River Plate, police said on Thursday, amid a massive security operation for a game rescheduled due to violence.
Do they worry that Memoirs glamorises the life of a football hooligan?
Football, he says, has a “hooligan” problem.
Guy Ritchie went on to cast him for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and his rough, British football hooligan performance put movie-goers off the hopeful medieval franchise.