hoodlum
noun
a thug or gangster.
hoodlumism
-
a word derived from
hoodlum.
Example Sentences
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In 1956, an episode that seemed to glorify hoodlumism drew such a loud chorus of protest that some 30 newspapers suspended the strip.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eight months ago, Goodman Quevedo went to work to stop youthful hoodlumism, started a kind of grown-up Boys Club for the zooters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Racketeering in labor was simultaneously attacked when New York's Doctor-Senator Copeland left Washington with a committee to investigate hoodlumism in New York, Detroit, Chicago.
From Time Magazine Archive
A day after denying that such organized hoodlumism existed in Boston, Saltonstall ordered State police to investigate, prevent further outbreaks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here lay the legitimate fruit of the State’s essential hoodlumism.
From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Hamlin Garland
