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fooligans

fooligans is the plural of fooligan.

Meaning of fooligan

Noun

fooligan (plural fooligans)

  1. (slang) A foolish or naive troublemaker.
    • Indeed, it is being erroneously taken for granted that this Suffrage foolery is a kind of game between the police and the fooligans.1909, The Academy and Literature, volume 75, page 44

Questions about fooligans

What is fooligans the plural of?
Fooligans is the plural of fooligan.

Words near fooligans in the dictionary

  1. foolhearty
  2. foolhood
  3. foolifies
  4. foolify
  5. fooligan
  6. fooligans
  7. foolin'
  8. fooling
  9. fooling about
  10. fooling along
  11. fooling around

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