HOOLIGANISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hooliganism mean? 

• HOOLIGANISM (noun)
  The noun HOOLIGANISM has 1 sense:

1. willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others

  Familiarity information: HOOLIGANISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOOLIGANISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hooliganism; malicious mischief; vandalism

Hypernyms ("hooliganism" is a kind of...):

destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)

devilment; devilry; deviltry; mischief; mischief-making; mischievousness; rascality; roguery; roguishness; shenanigan (reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others)

 Context examples 

“It was at the shop of Morse Hudson, who has a place for the sale of pictures and statues in the Kennington Road. The assistant had left the front shop for an instant, when he heard a crash, and hurrying in he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments. He rushed out into the road, but, although several passers-by declared that they had noticed a man run out of the shop, he could neither see anyone nor could he find any means of identifying the rascal. It seemed to be one of those senseless acts of hooliganism which occur from time to time, and it was reported to the constable on the beat as such. The plaster cast was not worth more than a few shillings, and the whole affair appeared to be too childish for any particular investigation.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)