Meaning of HOOLIGAN

Pronunciation:			'hoolugun
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  a cruel and brutal fellow
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	Synonyms:		bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo
	See Also:		aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker, bullyboy, muscleman, plug-ugly, skinhead, tough guy
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		arriviste, Babbitt, bad boy, bastard, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, booger, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bravo, brawler, bruiser, buffoon, bugger, bully, bullyboy, cad, churl, clown, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, creep, cutup, devil, disputant, duelist, elf, enfant terrible, enforcer, epicier, fart, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, funmaker, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, groundling, gun, gunsel, guttersnipe, hatchet man, heel, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, ill-bred fellow, imp, jerk, joker, jokester, jouster, knave, knight, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, looby, louse, lout, low fellow, meanie, militant, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, mother, mucker, mug, mugger, muscle man, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, Philistine, pill, pixie, plug-ugly, practical joker, prankster, puck, quarreler, rapscallion, rascal, rat, ribald, rioter, rival, rodman, rogue, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scamp, scapegrace, scrapper, scuffler, shit, shithead, shitheel, SOB, squabbler, stinkard, stinker, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, terror, thug, tilter, torpedo, tough, trigger man, turd, tussler, ugly customer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, wag, wrangler, yokel