yobbo

noun

ˈyä-bō How to pronounce yobbo (audio)
Definition of yobbonext
British
as in thug
a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang some yobbo has been threatening shopkeepers in the East End

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  1. thug
  2. criminal
  3. villain
  4. gangster
  5. pirate
  6. yob
  7. ruffian
  8. hooligan
Noun
  • Several journalists were beaten by police and media workers accused authorities of using thugs to deter people from attending anti-government rallies, which Georgian Dream denies.
    Sophiko Megrelidze, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Several young Georgians who still bore the visible marks of beating described being detained at peaceful protests by security forces; one independent election monitor recounted how he had been roughed up to leave a polling station by a crowd of thugs.
    Christian Caryl, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of thug
Noun
  • Murder on Music Row, an investigative podcast from The Tennessean, focuses on the 1989 murder of country music chart director Kevin Hughes, who tried to operate with integrity in a business full of sharks and criminals.
    Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • A lot of criminals when confronted with the potential of being bitten by a police canine immediately surrender.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of criminal
Noun
  • Still, the character is now available to play the hero or the villain in a slasher film — a la Winnie the Pooh — if some enterprising filmmaker wants to take advantage of the fair use.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Peter Dinklage rolls both hero and villain into his performance as Tyrion Lannister, a dwarf who uses intelligence to overcome prejudice.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of villain
Noun
  • Some scenes show the world-beating defiance this empire is built on; others, the gleeful package and sale of gangster authenticity in the ensuing years, the wedge which helped Snoop, Dre, and others like them — Jay-Z, VH1-era T.I. — pivot to television and business conglomerates.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The gangster rap which surrounded me was problematic in a number of ways.
    Jon Hochschartner, Hartford Courant, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of gangster
Noun
  • This small doohickey works with Amazon Key In-Garage Delivery, an exclusive Prime member benefit that protects your packages from porch pirates and increment weather.
    Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Zoom out: Also beware of virtual porch pirates, as one in five delivery package scam attempts starts via text message or messaging apps like WhatsApp or iMessage.
    Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of pirate
Noun
  • There’s certainly little warmth surrounding the past here, beginning with an eerie, cryptic prologue, set in 1973, that sees a rural wedding crashed by yobs in sinister, medieval-looking straw masks, followed by yellowing newspaper headlines that puzzle over the bride’s subsequent disappearance.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Johnson has more to worry about than just random yobs disrupting the call.
    Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 31 Mar. 2020
Definition of yob
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
  • On Wednesday, a Dortmund bar came under attack by Dutch hooligans, with the intention seemingly being to steal a St George flag.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 13 July 2024
  • Some have focused their anger on the community after some of the hooligans who attacked Israelis could be heard in videos of the attacks speaking Moroccan Arabic and Berber languages native to Morocco.
    Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
Definition of hooligan
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