Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To act as a hooligan (etymology 1, noun sense 1).

  2. (broadly, transitive)To treat (a person) roughly.

Examples

12 sentences

  1. Are you talking about that hooligan?

    ruТы об этом хулигане? — marafon

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  2. The hooligans have been banned from matches.

    deDen Hooligans wurde Stadionverbot erteilt. — Esperantostern

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  3. Many policemen aren't better than football hooligans.

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  4. What makes you think he's not a hooligan?

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  5. In his youth, my dad was a hooligan.

    ruВ молодости мой папа был хулиганом. — Wezel

    deIn seiner Jugend war mein Vater ein Hooligan. — Naina

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Forms

hooligans, hooliganing, hooliganed, hooliganed
Base formhooligan · to hooligan
3rd person singularhooligans
Present participlehooliganing
Past simplehooliganed
Past participlehooliganed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhooligan
he, she, ithooligans

Past simpleLesson

all personshooliganed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hooliganed
he, she, ithas hooliganed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hooligan

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hookerhookuphookyhoophooray

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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