(v. i.) To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind the Manchester ruffian image, they were conscientious people.
(2) These trousers, it later transpired, cost £995, and Nicky Morgan duly seized that predictable bait and snorted, “I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much on anything apart from my wedding dress.” After all, she added, while possibly patting a young local ruffian on the head, “My barometer is always, ‘How am I going to explain this in Loughborough market?” I think this was Morgan’s clueless way of saying she keeps it real, but it didn’t really work because those trousers looked exactly like the kind of thing sold in my local market, which, just this weekend, alongside the £1 Christmas crackers, was selling leather bustiers and disgusting, studded leather jackets.
(3) Two centuries later, Ruskin echoed these sentiments: Caravaggio, he claimed, painted “for the sake of the shadows”, and he was a “ruffian … distinguished only by his preference for candlelight and reinforcement of villainy”.
(4) Budget night at the opera: 28 March 1980 The souvenir programme (with it being a gala night, the programme cost more than a seat in some other theatres) promised "knights, esquires, ladies, ruffians, pages, maskers, soldiers, ushers, halberdiers, cupbearers and gondoliers."
(5) With their tight jeans and updated teddy-boy styles, the four gaff lads exude rough sex: they could have walked straight out of the Smiths's "Rusholme Ruffians" from the album Meat is Murder.
(2) The Super Eagles pushed France hard in their last-16 match in Brasilia only for Paul Pogba's late header and a last-gasp own-goal by Yobo to seal a 2-0 win for Les Bleus .
(3) In fact, the defence, which included Joseph Yobo at centre-half, were all over the place.
(4) France 2-0 Nigeria (Griezmann 90 +1) (Yobo) Nigeria concede possession again needlessly, Omeruo passing the ball back and out for a corner down the right.
(5) The toe of Yobo ensures the ball doesn't reach Benzema in a dangerous position on the left-hand edge of the area.
(6) If there was an element of good fortune about the way Dean Marney's side-footed shot was deflected by Tim Cahill's block, wrong-footing Howard in the process, Moyes must have been furious about the manner in which Yobo gave Hunt a second chance to make the cross.
(7) He fires it low into the six-yard box, where Griezmann gets ahead of Yobo and Enyeama at the right-hand post, and flicks into the empty net.
(8) Updated at 6.55pm BST 6.53pm BST 90 min +4: That's a Yobo own goal, looking again, I'm afraid.
(9) Stephen Keshi has announced he is stepping down as the Nigeria coach following the World Cup defeat to France, while defender Joseph Yobo has retired from international football.
(10) Social Media's Peter Odemwingie has been included in Nigeria's preliminary World Cup squad, alongside Mikel John Obi, Joseph Yobo, Victor Moses and Shola Ameobi.
(11) The Former Everton defender Yobo is also on his way out.
(12) Oh, and Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi and defender Jospeh Yobo stepped down after their team's exit .
(13) Subs: Yobo, Uzoenyi, Gabriel, Egwuekwe, Odemwingie, Odunlami, Ejide, Babatunde, Nwofor, Uchebo, Agbim, Ameobi Referee: Carlos Vera (Ecuador) Updated at 7.17pm BST 1.09pm BST Preamble Iran v Nigeria.
(14) Antoine Griezmann, Joseph Yobo and Vincent Enyeama look at the ball as it rolls towards the goal.
(15) The set piece, aimed towards Yobo at the near post, comes to nothing, but this is a nice open start.
(16) Nigeria make one enforced change, with Victor Moses replacing Michael Babatunde, who broke his left wrist against Argentina (or had it broken for him by a shot from the Gigi Riva de nos jours , his own team-mate Ogenyi Onazi): Enyeama, Ambrose, Yobo, Oshaniwa, Omeruo, Musa, Onazi, Mikel, Moses, Odemwingie, Emenike.
(17) On comes Joseph Yobo, who's making his 98th appearance for Nigeria.
(18) Stephen Hunt's cross from the left, made into a high looping delivery by a deflection off the head of Joseph Yobo, should have been easily dealt with but Sylvain Distin and Leighton Baines got in each other's way and the ball sat up nicely for Jozy Altidore to shoot.
(19) The president’s in favour and so is the sporting director.” Moyes talks about watching Joseph Yobo at Marseille, getting Tim Cahill, Andy Johnson and Phil Jagielka from the Championship, writing 24 reports on Joleon Lescott before eventually signing him, endless drives to Molineux.