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Meaning of "football hooligan" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN

football hooligan  [ˈfʊtˌbɔːl ˈhuːlɪɡən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN

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conjunction
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Football hooligan is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

football hooligan

Football hooliganism

Football hooliganism refers to unruly, violent, and destructive behaviour by overzealous supporters of football clubs, including brawling, vandalism and intimidation. Football hooliganism normally involves conflict between gangs, often known as football firms, formed for the specific purpose of intimidating and physically attacking supporters of other teams. Certain clubs have long-standing rivalries with other clubs and hooliganism associated with matches between them, is likely to be more severe. Conflict may take place before, during or after matches. Participants often select locations away from stadia to avoid arrest by the police, but conflict can also erupt spontaneously inside the stadium or in the surrounding streets. In such cases, shop windows may be smashed, rubbish bins set on fire, and police cars may be overturned. In extreme cases, hooligans, police, and bystanders have been killed, and body-armoured riot police have intervened with tear gas, police dogs, armoured vehicles and water cannons.

Definition of football hooligan in the English dictionary

The definition of football hooligan in the dictionary is a noisy violent football supporter.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN


balbriggan
bælˈbrɪɡən
brannigan
ˈbrænɪɡən
cardigan
ˈkɑːdɪɡən
Copenhagen
ˌkəʊpənˈheɪɡən
hooligan
ˈhuːlɪɡən
ligan
ˈlaɪɡən
michigan
ˈmɪʃɪɡən
Milligan
ˈmɪlɪɡən
mulligan
ˈmʌlɪɡən
neopagan
ˌniːəʊˈpeɪɡən
Nijmegen
ˈnaɪˌmeɪɡən
Oregon
ˈɒrɪɡən
origan
ˈɒrɪɡən
pagan
ˈpeɪɡən
ptarmigan
ˈtɑːmɪɡən
Rattigan
ˈrætɪɡən
Reagan
ˈreɪɡən
shenanigan
ʃɪˈnænɪɡən
tigon
ˈtaɪɡən
Wigan
ˈwɪɡən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN

footbag
football
football game
football ground
football hooliganism
football league
football match
football pitch
football player
football pools
football season
football special
football supporter
footballene
footballer
footballing
footballist
footbar
footbath
footboard

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN

argan
ballet-wrap cardigan
began
gan
Glamorgan
hogan
Iligan
Keegan
Lake Michigan
larrigan
logan
Morgan
organ
Sagan
schooligan
slogan
Tongan
vegan
wanigan
zigan

Synonyms and antonyms of football hooligan in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «football hooligan» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN

Find out the translation of football hooligan to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of football hooligan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «football hooligan» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

足球流氓
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hooligan de fútbol
570 millions of speakers

English

football hooligan
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फुटबॉल गुंडे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كرة القدم همجي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

футбол хулиган
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hooligan de futebol
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফুটবল গুন্ডা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le football hooligan
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hooligan bola sepak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fußball-Hooligan
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

サッカーのフーリガン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

축구 훌리건
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hooligan bal-balan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bóng đá côn đồ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கால்பந்து தொல்லைகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फुटबॉल गुंड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Futbol holiganası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hooligan
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chuligan piłkarski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

футбол хуліган
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

huligan fotbal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ποδόσφαιρο χούλιγκαν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sokker hooligans
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fotbollshuligan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

football hooligan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of football hooligan

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN»

The term «football hooligan» is normally little used and occupies the 110.388 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «football hooligan» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «football hooligan» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about football hooligan

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN»

Discover the use of football hooligan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to football hooligan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Among The Thugs
What sort of man spends his Saturday afternoons with people named Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy? Bill Buford's acclaimed Among the Thugs is a book about the experience, and the attractions, of crowd violence.
Bill Buford, 2011
2
Hooligans 2: The M-Z of Britain's Football Hooligan Gangs
In an easy-to-read alphabetical format, Hooligans Volume 2 covers all the major firms at every club from M to Z. Here for the first time are the histories of soccer firms with names like the Naughty Forty, the Drunk and Disorderly Firm, the ...
Nick Lowles, Andy Nicholls, 2007
3
Scally: The Shocking Confessions of a Category C Football ...
Andy Nicholls, a streetwise Evertonian with a wicked sense of humour, caused a furore with the hardback release of Scally, and this mass-market edition is set to sell even better.
Andy Nicholls, 2004
4
Bottle: The Completely True Story of an Ex-Football Hooligan
Steve threatened the publishers with a sledge-hammer and, hey presto, the book got published, but then that's how Martin Amis started, allegedly, so who knows what it might lead to? The Booker? The Pulitzer?
Ivor Baddiel, Steve Fist, 2012
5
Guvnors
Hard hitting and atmospheric, the story recounts Francis' childhood in the notorious Moss Side area of Manchester, his initiation into soccer thuggery, his rise through the ranks of the hooligan hierarchy, and the bitter clashes with other ...
Michael Francis, 1997
6
Hotshot: The Story of a Little Red Devil: My Life As a ...
In the mid-1980s, a young man from a tough Manchester estate exploded onto the soccer hooligan scene. Known to all as 'Hotshot', he was addicted to terrace violence and wanted to follow in the footsteps of the older United hooligans.
Colin Blaney, 2013
7
Zulus: A Football Hooligan Gang
Birmingham's Zulu Army occupies a unique place in the annals of terrace violence: it's a mixed race gang. Journalist Caroline Gall was granted unprecedented access to the gang and spent a year interviewing Zulu leaders and foot soldiers.
Caroline Gall, 2005
8
Gangs and Youth Subcultures: International Explorations
These young men originate from areas with a tradition of organised criminal activity and their interests in this way of life probably pre-date and are inherently more significant to their lives than their involvement in the 'football hooligan' ...
Kayleen M. Hazlehurst, Cameron Hazlehurst
9
The Men in Black: Inside Manchester United's Football ...
O'Neill notoriously put David Beckham in his place at Budapest airport and led United's following around Europe in the historic Treble Season before he was finally caught.
Tony O'Neill, Peter Walsh, 2006
10
Football Hooliganism, Fan Behaviour and Crime: Contemporary ...
Ethnography in sociology and criminology has been in decline in this field of crime and deviance for some time; the international media increasingly turned from academic commentators to football hooligan memoir authors for gritty ' authentic' ...
Matt Hopkins, James Treadwell, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term football hooligan is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Eight men arrested over Southend v Cambridge football hooligan
Police have arrested eight men on suspicion of assault and violent disorder which left a Cambridge United football supporter in a coma. «Essex Chronicle, Jul 15»
2
What happens when brands rebrand? | World Finance
Burberry models on the catwalk. The brand managed to alter its image, from football hooligan to high-end fashion ... «World Finance, Jul 15»
3
Students: raising hell since the Middle Ages
This charts his progress from teenage football hooligan to lawless Oxford Classicist, where “Television sets were half-inched from Junior ... «Times Higher Education, Jul 15»
4
Legend of Calcio: Zvonimir Boban
... their way onto the pitch, tensions were also high between the two ethnic groups and this manifested itself in the football hooligan culture. «Forza Italian Football, Jul 15»
5
Whitchurch thug jailed after attack scarred man
A Whitchurch man who is a member of the football hooligan group English Border Front punched a man in the face because he showed ... «shropshirestar.com, Jul 15»
6
Swansea City hooligan fined and banned for punching steward …
A TEENAGE football hooligan who punched a steward in the midst of crowd trouble during Crystal Palace's Premier League game against ... «Croydon Advertiser, Jul 15»
7
July 2015 Movie Releases: 'Terminator Genisys', 'Southpaw', Other …
Grimsby: The comedy film starring Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife Isla Fisher centres on a British black-ops spy and his "football hooligan" ... «International Business Times, India Edition, Jul 15»
8
Terry Sue-Patt: what became of the boy who was Grange Hill's …
... a gunman in Desmond's and, most memorably, football hooligan Yusef in Alan Clarke's Screen Two film The Firm. But it was never enough to ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
9
'We'll have no problems spotting you': Police win football match ban …
A football hooligan responsible for “serious” disorder at Dundee FC games has been banned after a campaign by police lasting several months ... «Evening Telegraph, Jun 15»
10
Lincoln City football hooligan Lee Swain breaches banning order …
A convicted football hooligan has breached a banning order given to him when he was jailed in 2013 – claiming he was simply dropping his ... «Lincolnshire Echo, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Football hooligan [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/football-hooligan>. Apr 2024 ».
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