hoodlum

Other forms of hoodlum

plural

hoodlums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hoodlum

What does hoodlum mean?

hoodlum means "an aggressive and violent young criminal".

How many syllables are in hoodlum?

hoodlum has 2 syllables: hood-lum. The stress falls on "hood". In IPA it is /ˈhʊdləm/.

What is another word for hoodlum?

Close synonyms include hood, goon, punk, thug, tough. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hoodlum a common word?

hoodlum is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.