What's the difference between hoodlum and youth?

Hoodlum


Definition:

  • (n.) A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Olusola Amore, a police official, appealed for members of the public to come forward "with information on the identity and location of these hoodlums".
  • (2) Manchester City will splurge on the Shakhtar Donetsk defender Fernandinho, Real Madrid hoodlum Pepe , the Málaga playmaker Isco and the Barcelona midfielder Thiago Alcântara .
  • (3) Into the Rover's Return swaggered three young hoodlums looking for trouble.
  • (4) Photograph: Kobal In the wild west, English expat John Tunstall (Terence Stamp) runs a finishing school for hoodlums, demanding proper table manners and teaching them to read.
  • (5) "The one above looks like a hoodlum has stabbed him in the head with a twig."
  • (6) Rising star Zheng Kuo's Burned Wings is a reckless study of young north-eastern hoodlums mixing violence, sex and comedy.
  • (7) Drug addicts and hoodlums took advantage … to burn tyres," Majiya told AP.
  • (8) During that time, you couldn't walk to the station in the morning without getting high on the smoke being puffed out all over the place by every Nike-wearing hoodlum.
  • (9) By far the most celebrated gangster of the day, though, was Al Capone, a New York-born hoodlum who controlled much of the Chicago underworld in the mid-1920s.
  • (10) Fearless and filled with righteous conviction, she confronts hoodlums and comforts the bereaved with such an extraordinary mixture of sense and sensitivity that you wonder why she isn't involved in a larger scale undertaking, like running the UN or the world.
  • (11) Juan Abbate, the owner of the family bakery where Mujica worked as a boy, described how he had once been prevented from making a delivery by a gang of teenage pasta-base hoodlums.
  • (12) Having been the target of protesters herself, Redgrave complimented her audience that they “stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behaviour is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression … I salute you and I thank you and I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against antisemitism and fascism.” Marlon Brando for The Godfather, 1973 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather collects Marlon Brando’s best actor Oscar.
  • (13) The other is the opportunity these divisions offer the new guy on the Afghan block – the black-flagged hoodlums of Islamic State.
  • (14) This might sound like an everyday scene for a hip city beach, but when I lived in Brazil 20 years ago, people in Rio seemed almost scared to blink lest their bags were snatched from their hands; and the busker's hat would have been nicked by hoodlums, along with his sax.
  • (15) Here we turn to the unfortunate spectacle of Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), chief hoodlum of the English Defence League, serial offender against community cohesion, claiming the high ground because one of Selfridges' assistants recognised him and refused to serve an associate of his .
  • (16) Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum."
  • (17) He has Tunstall assassinated, and the hoodlums band together as the Regulators to seek revenge.

Youth


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Youth
  • (n.) The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.
  • (n.) The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.
  • (n.) A young person; especially, a young man.
  • (n.) Young persons, collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That most of the neoplasms found were adenomas and not invasive cancer may be due to the relative youth of most of those screened.
  • (2) We continue to work closely with Pacific partner countries and regional organisations to build resilience and manage the impacts of climate change on economic development.” Aluka Rakin, director of Youth to Youth in Health in Majuro, said the organisation’s clinic is falling apart.
  • (3) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
  • (4) Everyone gets a bit excited with the whole ‘youth’ thing but, at our clubs, the managers wouldn’t just play any old youngster.
  • (5) Temperature at 3 PM, sensitive skin type, youthfulness, and being male were also independently associated with sunburn.
  • (6) The report also recommends including justice and victim of violence targets in the national Closing the Gap strategy, recognising foetal alcohol spectrum disorders as a disability before the courts, and making a national commitment to a justice reinvestment approach to find community-based solutions to youth crime.
  • (7) In addition, youthful onset of tropical diabetic syndrome (J-type diabetes) is extremely rare.
  • (8) Roy Hodgson has opted for youth in his 23-man squad for the World Cup, with Everton's Ross Barkley , 20, and Liverpool's Raheem Sterling, 19, the most eye-catching inclusions for Brazil.
  • (9) The sodium to potassium ratio did contribute to the prediction of blood pressure in girls and when, in youths as well as in adults, both sexes were considered together.
  • (10) Israeli policemen search the area after a body of a Palestinian youth was found in a Jerusalem's forest area.
  • (11) I need to provide services, bring employment and gradually I will take the youth out of the militias.” Where are the world's most war-damaged cities?
  • (12) Plasma catecholamine levels and the haemodynamic response to the hand-grip test have therefore been evaluated in a group of young athletes, compared with a group of non-trained youths.
  • (13) The method used was the AFMS questionnaire, which is based on the Matthews Youth Test for Health and a Swedish version of the Jenkins Activity Survey.
  • (14) The killing took place shortly after three Jewish youths, who had been kidnapped in the West Bank, were found murdered near Hebron.
  • (15) Although both men and women throughout history have seen hair as an important aspect of appearance, it is especially important today, in light of the great emphasis on youthfulness.
  • (16) I don't like it when people say, 'The youth are angry.
  • (17) The frequencies of patients with low thrombocyte monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity (defined as having an activity lower than 1 SD below the mean of a respective control group) were studied in 100 consecutive cases admitted to a clinic for child and youth psychiatry.
  • (18) Elferink told Guardian Australia the CLP had no plans in place to establish a youth court in Alice Springs, and that alcohol and other drug courts established by the former Labor government “didn’t work”.
  • (19) Data from the National Longitudinal Youth Survey (NLSY) were analyzed to study interrelationships between antisocial behaviors in early adolescence (ages 14-15) and late adolescent alcohol and drug use 4 years later (when adolescents were 18-19).
  • (20) In the course of their existence, they came to redefine the issue of pedophilia as one of youth emancipation.

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