HOOLIGAN


Meaning of HOOLIGAN in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

young

These young hooligans are stealing cigarettes and booze to sell it cheaply to feed a habit.

Worn by young hooligans , punks, football thugs.

She only took over the field 6 months ago and fears young hooligans are trying to drive her and her animals away.

Recruited young tearaways and hooligans , street thugs and riff-raff.

Nor were they in control of the young hooligans of the Bogside or the Paisleyite counter-demonstrators.

In short, young hooligans are terrorising and destroying the neighbourhoods in which they live.

■ NOUN

football

Crowd violence did not arrive with the football hooligans .

The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army.

Let us look more closely at the football hooligans themselves.

She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans .

Football fans, she supposed. Football hooligans , they called them over here.

The police have also taken on the football hooligans , the hippies, and the criminal gangs.

It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juvenile delinquents are chasing.

soccer

I think she and Phil were the nearest thing to soccer hooligans that canoeing can produce.

It was worse than soccer hooligans .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

football hooligan

Crowd violence did not arrive with the football hooligans.

It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juvenile delinquents are chasing.

Let us look more closely at the football hooligans themselves.

Once upon a time we were all law-abiding citizens, and now we've got football hooligans.

She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans.

The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army.

The police have also taken on the football hooligans, the hippies, and the criminal gangs.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Football hooligans caused over £30,000 of damage in bars and restaurants near the stadium.

His father was attacked by a gang of hooligans in a back street.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All this contrasts markedly with the media image of the hooligan as a purely destructive agent.

Becoming a hooligan within the Rowdies group is not a simple matter.

I think she and Phil were the nearest thing to soccer hooligans that canoeing can produce.

Our safe places were attacked by hooligans, and the authorities looked the other way.

The hooligan froze, and withdrew.

The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army.

These young hooligans are stealing cigarettes and booze to sell it cheaply to feed a habit.

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