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fooligan

noun

Etymology

Blend of fool + hooligan.

  1. borrowed from ulakan
  2. compounded as fooligan — “fool + hooligan”

Definitions

  1. A foolish or naive troublemaker.

    • Indeed, it is being erroneously taken for granted that this Suffrage foolery is a kind of game between the police and the fooligans.
    • CHANDLER: She's not my wife, she's not my wife you fool! You german fooligan! I went to high school I know what your country did to France!
    • A lot of these rappers that come in here could break out in a major way if they wasn't so busy slanging and bangin' and acting like a bunch of fooligans.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA