a young person who behaves in an extremely noisy and violent way in public, usually in a group hooligans vandalizing the neighborhood
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NAmE//ˈhulɪɡəˌnɪzəm//
noun [uncountable]See hooligan in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: hooligan