hoolie
nounUK /ˈhuːli/ · US /ˈhuli/
Etymology From hool(igan) + -ie (diminutive suffix).
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Abbreviation, Slang Short for hooligan (“a young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group”).
- Hooligans or hoolies are in it for the pure lust of violence and defence of turf and not really politics, although the subculture tends towards a right wing syndrome of working-class machismo and hostility to foreigners and to the better-off, better-dressed, and better-educated. Hoolies also tend towards public inebriation and, sometimes agitated by a small minority screaming 'Sieg Heil' and 'Germany for the Germans', have engaged in massed rampages through towns, attacking shops, police, and whatever target seemed convenient.1995, Peter H. Merkl, “Are the Old Nazis Coming Back?”, in Peter H. Merkl, editor, The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty-five: Union without Unity, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, part VI (Conclusion), pages 456–457:
- In the last published figures for Level Two, The Posh clocked up enough arrests to place them in the top five for hoolie problems for the division, putting them in the same dubious bracket as Stoke and Cardiff.2004, Geoff Harvey, Rivals: The Off-Beat Guide to the 92 League Clubs, Novato, Calif.: Aesculus Press, →ISBN:
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- Offer ten seconds of your morning to make sure a new kid is nerded up nicely and what does he do only try to make himself look cool again! Only nobody is fooled. Not the students and not the teachers and certainly not the hoolies, 'hoolie' being short for ‘hooligan’, Richie Robinson at the helm.2010, P[eter] R. Prendergast, chapter 3, in Dancing in the Dark, Dublin: The O’Brien Press, →ISBN, page 27: