football hooligan
football hooligan noun: a violent football (soccer) fan who routinely fights with supporters of opposing teams and/or with police, often the member of a firm.
Noun
football hooligan (plural football hooligans)
- A violent football (soccer) fan who routinely fights with supporters of opposing teams and/or with police, often the member of a firm.
- They speak of the respect among their peers that they hope their hooligan involvements will bring, and of "battle excitement," "the adrenaline racing," and "aggro" (short for aggression) almost erotically arousing. Indeed, Jay Allan, a leading member of the Aberdeen Casuals, a Scottish football...2010, Earl Smith, Sociology of Sport and Social Theory, →ISBN, page 22
- All of these factors have probably had their effect, though directly addressing the deeper, social causes of football hooligan behaviour has not been a major focus in the shaping of the current version of the sport in England.2013, Mark Perryman, Hooligan Wars: Causes and Effects of Football Violence, →ISBN
Examples of football hooligan in a sentence
- Indeed, Jay Allan, a leading member of the Aberdeen Casuals, a Scottish football hooligan “firm” in the 1980s, wrote of fighting at football as even more pleasurable than sex (1989).2010, Earl Smith, Sociology of Sport and Social Theory, →ISBN, page 22:
- I wasn't a football hooligan but I knew a lot of people and I knew a lot of football hooligans, and I got on with a lot of them.2014, Luke Bainbridge, The True Story of Acid House: Britain’s Last Youth Culture Revolution, →ISBN:
Forms of football hooligan
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Words formed from football hooligan
Questions about football hooligan
- What does football hooligan mean?
- Football hooligan means a violent football (soccer) fan who routinely fights with supporters of opposing teams and/or with police, often the member of a firm.
- How do you use football hooligan in a sentence?
- Indeed, Jay Allan, a leading member of the Aberdeen Casuals, a Scottish football hooligan “firm” in the 1980s, wrote of fighting at football as even more pleasurable than sex (1989).
- What part of speech is football hooligan?
- Football hooligan is a noun.
- What is the plural of football hooligan?
- The plural of football hooligan is football hooligans.
Words near football hooligan in the dictionary
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