hoodlum


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Synonyms for hoodlum

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Synonyms for hoodlum

a person who treats others violently and roughly, especially for hire

a rough, violent person who engages in destructive actions

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Synonyms for hoodlum

an aggressive and violent young criminal

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It was signed by Manuel Salvacion of the Armadong Rebolusyonaryong Manggagawa who claimed that Sih was a known 'hoodlum' who was 'guilty of abusing residents of [Barangay] Panghulo, Malabon City.'
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Driver agrees to sit behind the wheel of the getaway vehicle but the heist goes wrong, marking Driver for death at the hands of hoodlums Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) and Nino (Ron Perlman).
When the black detective in Inner City Hoodlum talks to the mother of a murdered black kid, she is reluctant to cooperate.
FRANKIE KOEHLER IS THE hoodlum you watched on Saturday afternoons when you had a black-and-white TV.
He starts with good impulses, but becomes a tough and ruthless hoodlum. The stories were collected (1935) in a single volume.
You take on the role of Luis Lopez, hoodlum and assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (a.k.a.
Weaver explores the influence of this dynamic on the way black men learn to negotiate the particularities of our culture in poems tellingly titled `Humility,' "Mama's Hoodlum" and "House Training."
Michael finds himself laundering money, becoming an accessory to murder and having to pass himself off as the infamous Mickey Blue Eyes - a comic treat as the polite, apologetic Englishman has to pass himself off as a streetwise Mafia hoodlum.
So on and on you fight through hoodlum after hoodlum before invariably coming to the equivalent of the end of level bad guy.
RAY LIOTTA rises through the Mafia ranks, flanked by psycho-killer Joe Pesci and smiling hoodlum Robert DeNiro.
MAGISTRATES have put a two-year anti-social behaviour order on a 10-year-old hoodlum, it was revealed yesterday.