hoodlums

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Northern Ireland Minister Conor Burns described those involved in the singing as "mindless hoodlums" and called for the police to investigate the matter.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2022

It was all sticks and spears and hoodlums scaling walls, castle-siege style.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2021

An assistant district attorney discovers one of the hoodlums he must prosecute is the son of a former love.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2020

“Twenty years ago the employers had all the hoodlums working for them as strikebreakers,” Hoffa told a reporter in 1959.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2019

Now the hoodlums were mounting a last-ditch effort to get us out of school before May 29.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals