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football hooliganism

football hooliganism noun: fighting at soccer games by football hooligans.

Noun

football hooliganism (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Fighting at soccer games by football hooligans.
    • Since the 1980s Chinese professional football has developed tremendously, but the quantity and intensity of football-related social disorder, especially the visibility of football hooliganism, has also increased.2004, John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Football Goes East: Business, Culture and the People's Game in East Asia, →ISBN
    • Religious, subnational, city-based, regional, and generation-based fault lines may draw into football hooliganism more people from higher on the social scale than tends to be the case in England.2010, Earl Smith -, Sociology of Sport and Social Theory, →ISBN, page 24

Origin of football hooliganism

From football hooligan + -ism.

Questions about football hooliganism

What does football hooliganism mean?
Football hooliganism means fighting at soccer games by football hooligans.
What part of speech is football hooliganism?
Football hooliganism is a noun.

Words near football hooliganism in the dictionary

  1. football field
  2. football fields
  3. football fruit
  4. football fruits
  5. football hooligan
  6. football hooliganism
  7. football hooligans
  8. football match
  9. football matches
  10. football minute
  11. football minutes

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