hooligan

Other forms of hooligan

plural

hooligans·

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 hooligan

What does hooligan mean?

hooligan means "a cruel and brutal fellow".

How many syllables are in hooligan?

hooligan has 3 syllables: hoo-li-gan. The stress falls on "hoo". In IPA it is /ˈhulɪɡən/.

What is another word for hooligan?

Close synonyms include bully, tough, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy. 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 hooligan a common word?

hooligan 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.