hoodlum
hoodlum 英 [ˈhu:dləm] 美 [ˈhudləm, ˈhʊd-]
n. 流氓；暴徒；无赖
名词复数:hoodlums
- Hoodlums are young people who are involved in crime or generally up to no good. A car full of hoodlums might drive down the street and smash mailboxes with a baseball bat. Hoodlums are into mean stuff like that.
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- n. 流氓；暴徒；无赖
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1. I have never been mugged or physically molested in any way , possibly because my large build does not make me an ideal prospect for a hoodlum .
可能是因为自己的大块头并不适合犯罪分子下手，我倒从没遇上过抢劫或是被揍。
- hoodlum (n.) popularized 1871, American English, (identified throughout the 1870s as "a California word") "young street rowdy, loafer," especially one involved in violence against Chinese immigrants, "young criminal, gangster;" it appears to have been in use locally from a slightly earlier date and may have begun as a specific name of a gang:
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