Hoon

Hoonname

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  A surname from Dutch.

• 2

  A civil parish (without a council) in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2231).

hoonnoun詞源 1/huːn/

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  derogatoryslangA worthless person; a hooligan or lout.

  • 'You flash hoon,' he went on, 'Kiddin' you're white, eh?[…].'
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  datedslangA pimp.

  • When the girls were sick, the hoons would beat the shit out of them and put them back on the street.
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  slangA person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.

  • Police have impounded an average of 10 cars a day since hoon laws were introduced by the State Government in June 2006. Hoon related offences include burnouts, doughnuts, drag racing, repeated driving while disqualified and high-level speeding. Offences are detailed in section 84C of the Road Safety Act 1986.
  • The hoons piled out of the wreck brimming with righteous road rage, and were settling to the task of beating the shit out of Wozza, Mutton and the hapless wheelman when they discovered the plastic bag.
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  slangAn attempt or go at something.

  • The stars of Happytime Murders give Kiwi slang a hoon
  • Havin' a hoon on TVNZ's new OnDemand platform

hoonverb詞源 1/huːn/

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  To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.

  • […] you've hooned off – it's fair to say hooned off – at quite a high speed.
  • Cruising, hooning and street machining all involve the social use of public space where young people can exert agency by independently engaging with their surroundings. Young people use public space to meet their needs, and not always in the way a specific space was designed for. One example is that an industrial area may be used as a prime site for hooning and street racers to congregate because it is less frequently under the gaze of authorities.

hoonverb詞源 2/huːn/

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  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.
  • Black flashing storms, the lowings and bellowings of the old sanded forest, the whistling and hooning of nameless birds, the lonesome moons, the weird fifteen-foot stone dwellers of the Old Priory, soft grassy slopes on which lovers lay, […]

hoonnoun詞源 3/huːn/

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  historicalA 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.

  • This abovementioned Chandoo or prepared opium for smoking is retailed by them [the East India Company] at 5 pice per hoon, equal to 8000 Spanish dollars per chest, and on the opposite or Queda shore the hoon is sold at 6 pice or 9,600 dollars, […]
  • Visited in company with the agent of the Opium farmer 4 Opium shops, found them filled with Chinese except one which had in addition 7 Malays and natives of India. Amongst these were 3 tailors; one woman 30 years old, was there smoking her pipe,—she had been in the habit of doing so for 3 years at the rate of 3 hoons daily,—before she commenced the habit of smoking had children but none since,—thinks that it is owing to the bad habit,—would like much to give up but is frightened.

hoonnoun詞源 4/huːn/

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  historicalA pagoda, a type of gold coin.

  • The plaintiff in his plaint states, that the first and second defendants' elder brother, Soobbiya Shetty, on the 8th Ashweeja Bahoola of the year Veya, mortgaged to him, for 2½ hoons, his two slaves, viz. a female Dher, named Honnoo, and a male Pardeshey, together with their offspring, and made them over to him; that while they were in his possession, Soobba Shetty died, and the first and the second defendants succeeding to his (Soobba Shetty's) property, they further executed a document to him for hoons 4-8-12, on account of a balance against themselves of rice, &c., making a total mortgage on the slaves of hoons 7-3-12.