- plural of hoodlum.
hoodlums
Example Sentences
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Northern Ireland Minister Conor Burns described those involved in the singing as "mindless hoodlums" and called for the police to investigate the matter.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2022
These coyotes are roving the streets in packs, like unrepentant hoodlums looking for a mark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2022
The film’s high-water mark, shot with a spellbinding fluidity in a housing project, witnesses Yen’s balletic body jumping, swinging and careening through an entire neighborhood of hoodlums.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
For a while, Oliver is on the run from both cops and hoodlums and goes around with a shaved head and a fake mustache, and it’s pretty funny.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2018
All kinds of professions now crowded in together, foundry workers and lawyers, maids and carpenters, doctors and hoodlums, but most people, this being 1932, were unemployed.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
