hooligan

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

hooli·gan [hooligan hooligans] BrE [ˈhuːlɪɡən] NAmE [ˈhuːlɪɡən] noun
a young person who behaves in an extremely noisy and violent way in public, usually in a group
•English football hooligans
Derived Word: ↑hooliganism

Word Origin:
late 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.

Thesaurus:
hooligan noun C
•Police arrested 30 football hooligans after the match.
vandal • • thug • |BrE lout •
a drunken hooligan/lout
a gang of hooligans/vandals/thugs

Example Bank:
•gangs of football hooligans roaming the streets
•Seven English football hooligans have been sent home from the Cup Final.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  bully, tough, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo