hooligan

Meanings

Plural: hooligan, hooligans

Noun

• a cruel and brutal fellow
• 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.
• A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific.

Verb

• To act as a hooligan (sense 1).
• To treat (a person) roughly.

Synonyms

agitator, bad boy, bad news, bear, bhoy, blackguard, booger, boot boy, bovver boy, brat, brawler, breedbate, buffoon, bugger, bully, candlefish, charva, cutup, devil, elf, enfant terrible, eulachon, firebrand, gadfly, hell-raiser, hood, hoodlum, hool, hoolie, hooligan, hothead, imp, inciter, initiator, instigator, jackanapes, joker, jokester, kindle-coal, kindle-fire, knave, lout, makebate, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, pixie, pot stirrer, practical joker, prankster, puck, rabble rouser, rakeshame, rantipole, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, roly-poly, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, shit disturber, shit-stirrer, shitmonger, tearaway, thug, titivil, tough, troublemaker, undesirable, vandal, wag, wagpastie, wrangler, yob, yobbo, yobo

Related Words

hooliganism, lout, thug, yob, yobbo