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MacBean (581 words)
appears in these lists:
pretty sounds, by raabia
kables's Words, by kables
picaresque, by trivet
2007bee-r02, by prakash
her words, by cicatriced
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hoodlum started as the name of a gang leader, Muldoon. A reporter reversed it to Noodlum, but the typesetter misread the reporter's handwriting and put it in the paper as "hoodlum".