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hoodlum

(n): an aggressive and violent young criminal
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3 months ago sionnach said:

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".

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