hoodlum
noun
a thug or gangster.
hoodlumism
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a word derived from
hoodlum.
Example Sentences
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A day after denying that such organized hoodlumism existed in Boston, Saltonstall ordered State police to investigate, prevent further outbreaks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In a production gagged to the teeth, liberty lurches into license, license swaggers into outrageousness, and farce reasserts its ancient claim to a kind of benevolent hoodlumism.
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
Such associations often break out in decadent country communities where, with fewer and feebler offspring, lax notions of family discipline prevail and hoodlumism is the direct result of the passing of the rod.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
