noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
young
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These young hooligans are stealing cigarettes and booze to sell it cheaply to feed a habit.
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Worn by young hooligans , punks, football thugs.
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She only took over the field 6 months ago and fears young hooligans are trying to drive her and her animals away.
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Recruited young tearaways and hooligans , street thugs and riff-raff.
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Nor were they in control of the young hooligans of the Bogside or the Paisleyite counter-demonstrators.
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In short, young hooligans are terrorising and destroying the neighbourhoods in which they live.
■ NOUN
football
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Crowd violence did not arrive with the football hooligans .
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The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army.
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Let us look more closely at the football hooligans themselves.
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She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans .
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Football fans, she supposed. Football hooligans , they called them over here.
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The police have also taken on the football hooligans , the hippies, and the criminal gangs.
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It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juvenile delinquents are chasing.
soccer
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I think she and Phil were the nearest thing to soccer hooligans that canoeing can produce.
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It was worse than soccer hooligans .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
football hooligan
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Crowd violence did not arrive with the football hooligans.
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It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juvenile delinquents are chasing.
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Let us look more closely at the football hooligans themselves.
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Once upon a time we were all law-abiding citizens, and now we've got football hooligans.
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She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans.
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The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army.
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The police have also taken on the football hooligans, the hippies, and the criminal gangs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Football hooligans caused over £30,000 of damage in bars and restaurants near the stadium.
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His father was attacked by a gang of hooligans in a back street.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All this contrasts markedly with the media image of the hooligan as a purely destructive agent.
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Becoming a hooligan within the Rowdies group is not a simple matter.
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I think she and Phil were the nearest thing to soccer hooligans that canoeing can produce.
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Our safe places were attacked by hooligans, and the authorities looked the other way.
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The hooligan froze, and withdrew.
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The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army.
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These young hooligans are stealing cigarettes and booze to sell it cheaply to feed a habit.