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football hooliganism

noun

Etymology

From football hooligan + -ism.

Definitions

  1. Fighting at soccer games by football hooligans.

    • Since the 1980s Chinese professional football has developed tremendously, but the quantity and intensity of football-related social disorder, especially the visibility of football hooliganism, has also increased.
    • Religious, subnational, city-based, regional, and generation-based fault lines may draw into football hooliganism more people from higher on the social scale than tends to be the case in England.

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