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
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
What can communities do to put down the "street corner" habits and the "hoodlumism" that comes of the boy gangs?
From Parent and Child Volume III., Child Study and Training by Mosiah Hall
