hoodlum
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George Bratsenis shuffled into a New Jersey courtroom in shackles last month, an old-school hoodlum with thick glasses, white hair and a forearm tattoo.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
In your film, a teacher once said that James would be either a hoodlum or a great entertainer.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2021
"He’s got an edge to him. He looks like a choir boy, but he plays like … a hoodlum," Van Gundy said.
From Fox News ● Jul. 8, 2021
And, pay careful attention to a rare appearance by legendary Stooge Shemp Howard as baby-renting hoodlum Wacky and the famed dance team Rene and Estela performing the rhumba.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
Demographic change is too slow and subtle a process—you don’t graduate from teenage hoodlum to senior citizen in just a few years—to even begin to explain the suddenness of the crime decline.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
The authorities say the curfew is necessary because "hoodlums" have hijacked the protests in order to loot and vandalise properties.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024
It was all sticks and spears and hoodlums scaling walls, castle-siege style.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021
“Twenty years ago the employers had all the hoodlums working for them as strikebreakers,” Hoffa told a reporter in 1959.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
To lock up just those 48 hoodlums and villains costs Bibb County taxpayers roughly $2,400 a day.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2017
All kinds of professions now crowded in together, foundry workers and lawyers, maids and carpenters, doctors and hoodlums, but most people, this being 1932, were unemployed.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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