hoon

noun · verbA1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

hoonshonhun

1.
(Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang)A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.
2.
(Australia, dated, slang)A pimp.
When the girls were sick, the hoons would beat the shit out of them and put them back on the street.
3.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang)A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.
4.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang)An attempt or go at something.
5.
(historical)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.
6.
(India, historical)A pagoda, a type of gold coin.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

hoons

V_ing/Gerund

hooning

V_ed/pp

hooned

1.
(Australia, New Zealand, especially)(especially Australia, New Zealand) To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.
Đồng nghĩa: hoon it
2.
To make a hooting or howling sound.
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.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

hoon it

Cùng gốc / liên quan

hoonish

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Nguồn gốc từ

; used initially as a general term of abuse. It first appeared in print in Capricornia (1938) by Australian writer Xavier Herbert (1901–1984); in a 1941 letter Herbert stated he had heard the term in his youth.