hoodlum

He charged that the Bonus march had been largely “organized and promoted by the Communists and included a large number of hoodlums and ex-convicts.”

The authorities say the curfew is necessary because "hoodlums" have hijacked the protests in order to loot and vandalise properties.

She told them, “You rotten hoodlums! What are you doing in this town?” she recalled in an oral history interview.

As with the original, this new version approaches the outlaw life from the perspective of the filthy rich bosses, trying to manage a business staffed by unreliable hoodlums.

Shakima Tozay was 37 years old and six months pregnant when a nurse, checking the fetal heart rate of the baby boy she was carrying, referred to him as “a hoodlum.”