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Meanings of hoodlum in English
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Examples for "tough"
Examples for "tough"
1
But tough conditions could continue for longer in some regions, he said.
2
The Hungarian parliament last week passed tough new legislation on illegal immigrants.
3
However, the rest of the national daily market suffered a tough October.
4
Talk to the public information officer. Abrams' voice belied his tough talk.
5
They have responded to the tough sugar market conditions in different ways.
1
The changes do not represent the introduction of new under-the-hood search technology.
2
And you have this long hood sort of connoting power and engine.
3
He casually placed one hand on the hood and said, Nice car.
4
A second later another went by, this time ending at the hood.
5
The power control module is the only thing visible under the hood.
1
As for Bolton, he defines 'punk' in terms of how it looks.
2
The punk-at-heart trio won't stop making new music anytime soon, Armstrong says.
3
The parasite is not just a punk out having a good time.
4
That's why it's often compared to the punk rock movement, he said.
5
What he cherished about punk four decades ago was the DIY aspect.
1
The police and thug violence became a regular fixture of anti-government protests.
2
This isn't one of the usual thug crime capers they're used to.
3
Sherman was most concerned by the people who called him a thug.
4
People often still see him as the thug he portrayed in Tsotsi.
5
Don't tell me the Brotherhood can't deal with a single lowborn thug.
1
So why on Earth would that corporate goon have said five years?
2
We play with the cards and drink goon.Night-life is not so good.
3
RELATED: Australia's chaotic border rules explained South Australians invented the goon bag.
4
Next to me, Ralph got a similar treatment from Alex the goon.
5
You underestimated me when you sent the goon squad out last night.
1
She was a toughie, lived in our street, I used to write mash notes to.
2
She's a toughie! This is her weekly workout routine, which includes one rest day on Sundays.
3
It was a toughie, but you came through.
4
She was the toughie in the family.
5
Well, air resistance makes that a toughie.
Usage of hoodlum in English
1
Korshak had numerous associations that gave him purchase with Chicago's hoodlum crowd.
2
He had been a hoodlum there, and had helped to hang Chinese.
3
He's a young hoodlum who makes it big and then he's erased.
4
Whereupon seven hoodlum students waited a decent moment, then shrieked with laughter.
5
Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough.
6
We've got more important things on our minds than that stupid hoodlum.
7
The heroine's best pal is in an abusive relationship with a prime hoodlum.
8
Letting his daughter anywhere near that young hoodlum was the last thing J.D.
9
Allegations also have been received concerning hoodlum connections of Senator Kennedy.
10
Sinatra talked the hoodlum talk, but was he walking the walk?
11
He had caught this little hoodlum satellite of thieves in an ugly lie.
12
He was just a Tenderloin hoodlum with some of the scum scraped off.
13
Before the hoodlum could retaliate Batou put two bullets in him.
14
One brutal squeeze, one strangled cry, and the hoodlum dropped dead.
15
The man Stedman and Purcell killed was just another vicious hoodlum.
16
Grabbing the nearest hoodlum, he flung his strong arm across the man's throat.
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