Definition of "hoodlum" []

• A gangster; a thug. (noun)
• A tough, often aggressive or violent youth. (noun)

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• "They have Edward looking like a hoodlum from the fifties or something."
• "Just because a POS hoodlum is "hunting" doesn't make him or her an ethical sportsman that I want to stick together with."
• "While Robin Hood has been romanticized in the movies and books, where do you think the word hoodlum came from?"