hoon

hoon englanniksi

1. A worthless person; a hooligan or lout. (defdate)

2. (quote-book).'

3. A pimp. (defdate)

4. 2009, Shand (journalist)|Adam Shand, ''The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia's Toughest Cop'', Melbourne: Black Inc., Standard Book Number|ISBN 978-1-86395-438-9; republished Melbourne, Black Inc., 2010, Standard Book Number|ISBN 978-1-86395-482-2, page 85:

When the girls were sick, the hoons would beat the shit out of them and put them back on the street.

5. A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street racer often driving heavily customized cars. (defdate)

6. (quote-web)

7. (quote-book)

8. (quote-book) Predictably, this has produced a series of strategies among young people through which to counter the boredom and frustration they often experience. One of the more spectacular – and illegal – examples of this is "hooning" (a localized term for dangerous driving) by young males. (..) Hoons transform the quiet, often sleepy streets of neighborhoods on the Gold Coast into playscapes of their own. (..) Equally salient in the context of the present discussion is the random night-time appropriation by hoons of particular streets and neighborhoods on the Gold Coast in which to enact the collective rituals that give the hoon culture both internal cohesion and local notoriety.

9. An attempt or go at something. (defdate)

10. To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.

(syn)

11. (quote-journal) you've hooned off – it's fair to say hooned off – at quite a high speed.

12. To make a hooting or howling sound.

13. 1910, (w), “

All this time, every night, and sometimes most of each night, the hooning whistling of the Room was intolerable. It was as if an intelligence there knew that steps were being taken against it, and piped and hooned in a sort of mad, mocking contempt.

14. A unit of weight (about 0.378125 of a gram, or 0.0133 of an ounce) used to measure opium in British-controlled parts of Asia; a candareen.

15. (quote-journal) at 5 pice per hoon, equal to 8000 Spanish dollars per chest, and on the opposite or Queda shore the hoon is sold at 6 pice or 9,600 dollars, (..)

16. (quote-journal)

17. (quote-book)|year=1860|volume=II|page=553|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpVFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA553|oclc=557379855|passage=Examined thirty-one men. Their average consumption was six hoons. The greatest daily consumption by one man was fifteen hoons; the smallest, two. The average number of years they had been addicted to the smoking of opium was seven years and some odd months.

18. A pagoda, a type of gold coin.

19. year

20. mockery, sneering

21. scorn, derision

22. (infl of)

23. water

24. The part of today that is yet to come; later today.

25. rooster