- plural of hoodlum.
hoodlums
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“We were hoodlums in a sense, out of our circumstances,” he said during an interview at his Berkeley co-op in May.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
Northern Ireland Minister Conor Burns described those involved in the singing as "mindless hoodlums" and called for the police to investigate the matter.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2022
“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
For a while, Oliver is on the run from both cops and hoodlums and goes around with a shaved head and a fake mustache, and it’s pretty funny.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2018
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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