hooligan
noun/ˈhuːlɪɡən/
/ˈhuːlɪɡən/
- a young person who behaves in an extremely noisy and violent way in public, usually in a group
- English football hooligans
- gangs of soccer hooligans roaming the streets
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHooligan is used after these nouns:- football
- soccer
Word Originlate 19th cent.: perhaps from Hooligan, the surname of a fictional rowdy Irish family in a music-hall song of the 1890s, also of a cartoon character.
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