juvenile delinquent

noun

Definition of juvenile delinquentnext
as in tough
a young person who has committed a crime

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  1. tough
  2. gangster
  3. mobster
  4. gorilla
  5. ruffian
  6. thug
  7. hoodlum
  8. rowdy
Noun
  • Williams is already Beale Street jerky tough and looks like a plug-and-play 3-and-D wing.
    Kelly Iko, The Athletic, 11 Apr. 2024
  • When a set of tortuous toughs relocate to the neighborhood, his temperament shifts and the scenes increasingly unravel the inner workings of his shaken psyche.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of tough
Noun
  • His family told the local press that the man responsible for his death was a gangster from a rival group who had been living in exile in South Africa.
    Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The group’s chairman is John Chan, a former Chinatown gangster convicted of human trafficking and drug smuggling charges in the mid-2000s who has since become influential in New York politics.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of gangster
Noun
  • In the new Amazon Prime series, Diamantopoulos’ mobster Mike Byrne teams up with Martindale’s maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry and Guillaume Cyr's security guard Remy Bouchard to pull a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Read Part 2: How an informant nearly brokered a cartel alliance and Part 3: A mobster helped the feds arrest drug dealers.
    Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of mobster
Noun
  • Neal Rubin used to own a gorilla suit, but has never dressed as a lion.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The setup risks absurdity—the cast (which includes Nathan) essentially wears gorilla suits—but the premise is developed with meticulous and quasi-biological specificity, anthropological rigor, and imaginative speculation about the creatures’ emotions and senses of selfhood.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of gorilla
Noun
  • Friends and neighbors worried that these rumors could attract dangerous young ruffians who might harm them and steal the money.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Troy Stecher is a puck-mover with some two-way ability but is not considered a ruffian in the corners and in front of the net.
    Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
Definition of ruffian
Noun
  • The proximate cause of the war crimes chronicled in Han’s novels is South Korea’s succession of authoritarian governments, their soldiers and police; on Jeju Island, these were joined by gangs of right-wing thugs.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, that is Canet playing the paragliding avenger, Franck, who’s trying to free his abducted pregnant wife, Léo (Stéphane Caillard), from a blackmailing thug.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of thug
Noun
  • However, their dreams are threatened by the hoodlums in the Riverbottom Gang.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • While Muhammad Ali made his professional boxing comeback with a win against Jerry Quarry at Atlanta’s Municipal Auditorium on October 26, 1970, a group of hoodlums robbed the Black Mafia of more than $1 million in cash and jewelry at a nearby after-party.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
Definition of hoodlum
Noun
  • The Horned Frogs have more talent and experience than the Buffaloes but will have to battle the heightened elevation and the rowdy, Colorado home-field advantage.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Anna Kendrick, Michelle Yeoh, and Denzel Washington all got the same rowdy yet amiable energy.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 July 2022
Definition of rowdy
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