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A violent and noisy football (soccer) fan who routinely fights with supporters of opposing teams, often the member of a firm.
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A person that causes trouble or violence.
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(Navy slang) A member of the coast guard.
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A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific.
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Examples of hooligans in a Sentence
Used to be we didn't have hooligans running around out here causing problems.
The real hooligans in society are those who silence ideas.
The NF has been trying to recruit football hooligans for its march.
This culminated in the Heysel stadium tragedy of 1985, when violence by English hooligans led to the deaths of over 30 Italian fans.
This tragical farce was soon at an end and its author a fugitive in the United States, whence he instigated bands of hooligans to make piratical attacks upon the Canadian frontier.
However, it transpires that hordes of young hooligans have been making his life a misery in recent years.
Officers will be on the look out for known hooligans who are subject to a court order banning them from traveling to Portugal.
In 1998, he was deported from France with over 50 other Scottish hooligans, including several BNP members.
These officers are working closely with other Forces to prevent football hooligans from traveling to Portugal in line with the national strategy.
They might be civil service mandarins, the Lord Chancellor or the Lord Chief Justice, asylum seekers, illegal immigrants or football hooligans.
While Dean discounted hooligans as the source of his vandalism, he was more than happy to accept Brandon Westlake's timely rescue.
How I found my inner hippy Leo Gregory made his name playing modern-day hooligans.
The Home Office announce plans to thwart English hooligans during the World Cup.
The smartly dressed football hooligans with well paid jobs of Euro 2000?
True, by comparison with serial killers, football hooligans and the Inland Revenue she probably is quite saintly.
This was seized upon as a pretext for violent anti-clerical demonstrations all over Italy and for brutal and unprovoked attacks on unoffending priests; at Spezia a church was set on fire and another dismantled, at Marino Cardinal Merry del Val was attacked by a gang of hooligans, and at Rome the violence of the teppisti reached such a pitch as to provoke reaction on the part of all respectable people, and some of the aggressors were very roughly handled.
At Milan it was more serious and lasted longer than elsewhere, as the movement was controlled by the anarchists under Arturo Labriola; the hooligans committed many acts of savage violence, especially against those workmen who refused to strike, and much property was wilfully destroyed.