hoon
see also: Hoon
Pronunciation Noun
Hoon
Proper noun
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see also: Hoon
Pronunciation Noun
hoon (plural hoons)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A worthless person; a hooligan or lout. [From 1930s.]
- (Australia, slang, dated) A pimp. [From 1950s.]
- 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 ↗:
- 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 ↗:
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars. [From 1980s.]
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attempt or go at something. [From 1980s.]
hoon (hoons, present participle hooning; past and past participle hooned)
- (Australia, New Zealand) To act loutishly; specifically, to drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.
hoon (hoons, present participle hooning; past and past participle hooned)
- To make a hoot#Verb|hooting or howl#Verb|howling sound.
- 1910, William Hope Hodgson, “The Whistling Room”, in The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 34617117 ↗, page 606; republished in Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913, OCLC 13117415 ↗:
- All this time, every night, and sometimes most of each night, the hooning whistling of the Room was intolerable. It was as if an intelligence there knew that steps were being taken against it, and piped and hooned in a sort of mad, mocking contempt.
- 1910, William Hope Hodgson, “The Whistling Room”, in The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 34617117 ↗, page 606; republished in Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913, OCLC 13117415 ↗:
hoon (plural hoons)
- (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.
hoon (plural hoons)
Hoon
Proper noun
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