hoons

Noun (1)

hoon (plural hoons)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang) A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.
   • 'You flash hoon,' he went on, 'Kiddin' you're white, eh?[…].'1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia: A Novel, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, →OCLC
2. (Australia, dated, slang) A pimp.
   • When the girls were sick, the hoons would beat the shit out of them and put them back on the street.2009, Adam Shand, The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia's Toughest Cop, Melbourne: Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-438-9; republished Melbourne, Black Inc., 2010, ISBN 978-1-86395-482-2, page 85
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.
   • Police have impounded an average of 10 cars a day since hoon laws were introduced by the State Government in June 2006. Hoon related offences include burnouts, doughnuts, drag racing, repeated driving while disqualified and high-level speeding. Offences are detailed in section 84C of the Road...2008 July 30, “Hoon Laws”, in Victoria Police, archived from the original on 15 May 2009
4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attempt or go at something.
   • The stars of Happytime Murders give Kiwi slang a hoon2018 August 28, “stars give kiwi slang a hoon”, in The Rock (radio station)

Noun (2)

hoon (plural hoons)

1. (historical) A unit of weight (about 0.378125 of a gram, or 0.0133 of an ounce) used to measure opium in British-controlled parts of Asia; a candareen.
   • This abovementioned Chandoo or prepared opium for smoking is retailed by them [the East India Company] at 5 pice per hoon, equal to 8000 Spanish dollars per chest, and on the opposite or Queda shore the hoon is sold at 6 pice or 9,600 dollars, […]1838, N[athaniel] Wallich, “XVII.—A Few Brief Notices on the State of the Population of Prince of Wales' Island, and of the Price at which Opium is Retailed in that Colony”, in Transactions of the...

Noun (3)

hoon (plural hoons)

1. (India, historical) A pagoda, a type of gold coin.
   • The plaintiff in his plaint states, that the first and second defendants' elder brother, Soobbiya Shetty, on the 8th Ashweeja Bahoola of the year Veya, mortgaged to him, for 2½ hoons, his two slaves, viz. a female Dher, named Honnoo, and a male Pardeshey, together with their offspring, and made...1835 July 29, “Decree Passed by the Barcoor Moonsif, in Original Cause, No. 126 of 1835, on the 29th July 1835: Hossamunay Manddawanna Shetty, residing in the Hondady Village, and Brumawhar Mogany...

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