English words for 'unruly, aggressive behavior; behavior associated with hooligans'
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- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) A young, brash, and impertinent, and possibly violent, troublemaker, especially one who is a gang member; a hooligan.
- (by extension, Australia, slang) A high-spirited person who playfully rebels against authority and conventional norms; a maverick or scamp.
- a disposition to behave aggressively
- Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
- violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
- a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- the act of initiating hostilities
- deliberately unfriendly behavior
- (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.
- The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
- The practice or habit of launching attacks.
- Ellipsis of football hooligan.
- (informal, attributive) A young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group.
- A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific.
- (slang, US) A member of the United States Coast Guard.
- a cruel and brutal fellow
- (of behaviour) Violent; rude; boisterous
- (of weather) Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous
- (of temper, character, or people) Harsh; austere; hard
- Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
- Covered with a rug.
- (of health, physique etc.) Vigorous; robust; hardy
- (of land) Rocky and bare of plantlife.
- Rough with bristly hair; shaggy.
- Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
- (of sound, style etc.) Harsh; grating; unpleasant sounding or looking
- (of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
- (of looks, appearance etc.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled
- Having a rug or rugs.
- (computing, of a computer) Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.
- sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
- having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- topographically very uneven
- Football (soccer) hooliganism.
- Gout.
- Gambling.
- Depression (especially suicidal).
- Syphilis.
- Laziness; low motivation.
- Bronchitis.
- Haemophilia.
- Sweating sickness.
- Hypochondria.
- Poor industrial relations and the resulting economic weakness.
- Tuberculosis.
- Rickets.
- Masochism, especially a fondness for flagellation.
- Homosexuality.
- Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
- (finance) Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
- (especially programming, of a method or process) Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
- (US, LGBTQ, Black lesbian slang) Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
- (pathology, of a tumour or disease) That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
- characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
- having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
- tending to spread quickly
- (soccer) An especially devoted football fan, typically organized and participating in choreographies (including pyrotechnics), often of outwardly intimidating demeanour, but distinguished from a violent hooligan (although overlap between both subcultures is possible)
- (athletics) An ultramarathon.
- An ultraleftist.
- (usually capitalized) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.
- (climbing) An ultra-prominent peak.
- An ultranationalist.
- A political extremist, in particular:
- (historical, France) An ultraroyalist.
- (Ancient Rome) A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.
- Synonym of heelwalker (“Any of the order Mantophasmatodea of carnivorous, wingless insects that superficially resemble a cross between praying mantises and phasmids.”).
- A professional boxer.
- (by extension) A disputant in a public controversy or debate.
- (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat
- a professional boxer
- A deliberate, unsportsmanlike, and potentially illegal act of aggression against an opponent.
- (by extension) A remark that unfairly disparages an obvious vulnerability of the target.
- an illegal and unsportsmanlike act of unnecessary violence
- an unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person
- rowdy behavior
- used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
- a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
- an unpolished unrefined quality
- the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses
- the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
- harsh or severe speech or behavior
- (US) Roughage; coarse fodder.
- (Scotland) Abundance, especially of food.
- Something that is rough; a rough spot.
- The property of being rough, coarseness.
- (countable, engineering) A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface
- (chiefly UK, Australia) Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
- (gaming) Hostile attention from an enemy.
- Aggravation; bother.
- (gaming) A measure of a player's level of belligerence.
- (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Angry.
- (TCGs) Of a player, favoring such decks.
- (British, US, slang) Hardcore, aggressive.
- (colloquial) Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked).
- (TCGs) Of a deck, designed for aggressive play that seeks to defeat the opponent in the early stages of the game.
- (sports) To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- (intransitive) To improve, increase, or speed up.
- (intransitive) To restart or resume.
- (transitive and intransitive with on) To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- (transitive or intransitive) To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- (transitive) To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- (transitive, media) To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To reach and continue along (a road).
- (transitive) To record; to notch up.
- (transitive) To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch or contract (a disease).
- (transitive) To reduce the despondency of.
- (transitive) To take control (physically) of something.
- (intransitive, of a phone) To receive calls; to function correctly.
- (transitive) To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on.
- (soccer, transitive) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- (transitive) To collect and detain (a suspect).
- (transitive) To pay for.
- (transitive) To collect an object, especially in passing.
- (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- (transitive) To collect a passenger.
- (US, military, transitive) To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- (transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.
- (transitive or intransitive) To answer a telephone.
- (transitive) To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- lift out or reflect from a background
- give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- gather or collect
- register (perceptual input)
- take and lift upward
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- meet someone for sexual purposes
- improve significantly; go from bad to good
- take into custody
- gain or regain energy
- buy casually or spontaneously
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- take up by hand
- get in addition, as an increase
- undisciplined and unruly
- completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
- in utter disorder
- Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.
- Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.
- (law) Offensive to good morals and public decency.
- Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
- An animal, especially a large or dangerous land vertebrate.
- (often collective) All non-human animals seen as a group.
- (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
- (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
- (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
- (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
- (chiefly in Commonwealth English, more specifically) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
- A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
- a cruelly rapacious person
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- in an aggressive manner
- changing suddenly in direction and degree
- very suddenly and to a great degree
- in a well delineated manner
- Piercingly; keenly; severely; painfully.
- Quickly and alertly.
- Rapidly, abruptly.
- (to describe breathing) Suddenly and intensely like a gasp, but typically as the result of an emotional reaction.
- Steeply; precipitously.
- Stylishly, smartly.
- Precisely, accurately.
- So as to terminate in a sharp point or edge.
- In an intellectually alert and penetrating manner.
- In a strongly distinguishing or differentiating manner; acutely.
- Of speech, sternly, harshly or critically.
- So as to form a sharp, or tight, angle.
- Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent.
- Not frivolous or fallacious; trustworthy; solid; dependable.
- Fixed (in opinion).
- Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
- Durable, rigid (material state).
- Mentally resistant to hurt or stress.
- strong and sure
- not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall
- possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue
- not subject to revision or change
- securely established
- securely fixed in place
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
- (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.
- (transitive, colloquial) To grit one's teeth and bear; to push through something unpleasant.
- (transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.
- (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
- (intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).
- (intransitive) To improve after decline.
- make taut or tauter
- become taut or tauter
- A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
- (collective) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
- (chiefly Japanese fiction) A background character in general.
- (video games) A creature or non-player character, especially one meant to be fought or killed.
- A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
- (Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
- Abbreviation of mobile phone.
- (Australia) (collective) A group of kangaroos.
- (Australia) (collective) A group of emus.
- A mob cap.
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- an association of criminals
- a disorderly crowd of people
- violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
- the feeling of a hostile person
- a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition
- a state of deep-seated ill-will
- (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
- (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
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- a disposition to behave aggressively
- Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
- violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
- a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- the act of initiating hostilities
- deliberately unfriendly behavior
- (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.
- The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
- The practice or habit of launching attacks.
- (soccer) An especially devoted football fan, typically organized and participating in choreographies (including pyrotechnics), often of outwardly intimidating demeanour, but distinguished from a violent hooligan (although overlap between both subcultures is possible)
- (athletics) An ultramarathon.
- An ultraleftist.
- (usually capitalized) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.
- (climbing) An ultra-prominent peak.
- An ultranationalist.
- A political extremist, in particular:
- (historical, France) An ultraroyalist.
- A deliberate, unsportsmanlike, and potentially illegal act of aggression against an opponent.
- (by extension) A remark that unfairly disparages an obvious vulnerability of the target.
- an illegal and unsportsmanlike act of unnecessary violence
- an unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person
- rowdy behavior
- used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
- a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
- an unpolished unrefined quality
- the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses
- the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
- harsh or severe speech or behavior
- (US) Roughage; coarse fodder.
- (Scotland) Abundance, especially of food.
- Something that is rough; a rough spot.
- The property of being rough, coarseness.
- (countable, engineering) A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface
- (chiefly UK, Australia) Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
- (gaming) Hostile attention from an enemy.
- Aggravation; bother.
- (gaming) A measure of a player's level of belligerence.
- (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Angry.
- (TCGs) Of a player, favoring such decks.
- (British, US, slang) Hardcore, aggressive.
- (colloquial) Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked).
- (TCGs) Of a deck, designed for aggressive play that seeks to defeat the opponent in the early stages of the game.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
- An animal, especially a large or dangerous land vertebrate.
- (often collective) All non-human animals seen as a group.
- (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
- (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
- (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
- (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
- (chiefly in Commonwealth English, more specifically) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
- A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
- a cruelly rapacious person
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent.
- Not frivolous or fallacious; trustworthy; solid; dependable.
- Fixed (in opinion).
- Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
- Durable, rigid (material state).
- Mentally resistant to hurt or stress.
- strong and sure
- not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall
- possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue
- not subject to revision or change
- securely established
- securely fixed in place
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
- (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.
- (transitive, colloquial) To grit one's teeth and bear; to push through something unpleasant.
- (transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.
- (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
- (intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).
- (intransitive) To improve after decline.
- make taut or tauter
- become taut or tauter
- A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
- (collective) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
- (chiefly Japanese fiction) A background character in general.
- (video games) A creature or non-player character, especially one meant to be fought or killed.
- A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
- (Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
- Abbreviation of mobile phone.
- (Australia) (collective) A group of kangaroos.
- (Australia) (collective) A group of emus.
- A mob cap.
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- an association of criminals
- a disorderly crowd of people
- undisciplined and unruly
- completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
- in utter disorder
- Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.
- Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.
- (law) Offensive to good morals and public decency.
- Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
- violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
- the feeling of a hostile person
- a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition
- a state of deep-seated ill-will
- (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
- (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
- Ellipsis of football hooligan.
- (informal, attributive) A young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group.
- A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific.
- (slang, US) A member of the United States Coast Guard.
- a cruel and brutal fellow
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- Ellipsis of football hooligan.
- (informal, attributive) A young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group.
- A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific.
- (slang, US) A member of the United States Coast Guard.
- a cruel and brutal fellow
- (Ancient Rome) A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.
- Synonym of heelwalker (“Any of the order Mantophasmatodea of carnivorous, wingless insects that superficially resemble a cross between praying mantises and phasmids.”).
- A professional boxer.
- (by extension) A disputant in a public controversy or debate.
- (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat
- a professional boxer
- (sports) To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- (intransitive) To improve, increase, or speed up.
- (intransitive) To restart or resume.
- (transitive and intransitive with on) To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- (transitive or intransitive) To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- (transitive) To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- (transitive, media) To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To reach and continue along (a road).
- (transitive) To record; to notch up.
- (transitive) To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch or contract (a disease).
- (transitive) To reduce the despondency of.
- (transitive) To take control (physically) of something.
- (intransitive, of a phone) To receive calls; to function correctly.
- (transitive) To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on.
- (soccer, transitive) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- (transitive) To collect and detain (a suspect).
- (transitive) To pay for.
- (transitive) To collect an object, especially in passing.
- (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- (transitive) To collect a passenger.
- (US, military, transitive) To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- (transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.
- (transitive or intransitive) To answer a telephone.
- (transitive) To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- lift out or reflect from a background
- give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- gather or collect
- register (perceptual input)
- take and lift upward
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- meet someone for sexual purposes
- improve significantly; go from bad to good
- take into custody
- gain or regain energy
- buy casually or spontaneously
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- take up by hand
- get in addition, as an increase
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- in an aggressive manner
- changing suddenly in direction and degree
- very suddenly and to a great degree
- in a well delineated manner
- Piercingly; keenly; severely; painfully.
- Quickly and alertly.
- Rapidly, abruptly.
- (to describe breathing) Suddenly and intensely like a gasp, but typically as the result of an emotional reaction.
- Steeply; precipitously.
- Stylishly, smartly.
- Precisely, accurately.
- So as to terminate in a sharp point or edge.
- In an intellectually alert and penetrating manner.
- In a strongly distinguishing or differentiating manner; acutely.
- Of speech, sternly, harshly or critically.
- So as to form a sharp, or tight, angle.
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- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) A young, brash, and impertinent, and possibly violent, troublemaker, especially one who is a gang member; a hooligan.
- (by extension, Australia, slang) A high-spirited person who playfully rebels against authority and conventional norms; a maverick or scamp.
- (of behaviour) Violent; rude; boisterous
- (of weather) Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous
- (of temper, character, or people) Harsh; austere; hard
- Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
- Covered with a rug.
- (of health, physique etc.) Vigorous; robust; hardy
- (of land) Rocky and bare of plantlife.
- Rough with bristly hair; shaggy.
- Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
- (of sound, style etc.) Harsh; grating; unpleasant sounding or looking
- (of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
- (of looks, appearance etc.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled
- Having a rug or rugs.
- (computing, of a computer) Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.
- sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
- having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- topographically very uneven
- Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
- (finance) Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
- (especially programming, of a method or process) Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
- (US, LGBTQ, Black lesbian slang) Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
- (pathology, of a tumour or disease) That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
- characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
- having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
- tending to spread quickly
- undisciplined and unruly
- completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
- in utter disorder
- Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.
- Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.
- (law) Offensive to good morals and public decency.
- Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.