hoon

FREQ #24575

n. [澳大利亚英语]拉皮条者

发音

UK /huːn/
AU
US /hun/

词形变化

hoons 复数 hoons 三单 hooning 现在分词 hooned 过去式 hooned 过去分词

别名

hon hun

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 贬义 俚语
  2. 2.

    A pimp.

    澳大利亚 过时 俚语

    When the girls were sick, the hoons would beat the shit out of them and put them back on the street.

  3. 3.

    A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 俚语
  4. 4.

    An attempt or go at something.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 俚语
  5. 1.

    A 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.

    历史
  6. 1.

    A pagoda, a type of gold coin.

    印度 历史
v.
  1. 1.

    To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.

    澳大利亚 新西兰
  2. 1.

    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.

相关短语

hoon it bee hoon mee hoon tang hoon

词源

Uncertain; used initially as a general term of abuse. It first appeared in print in Capricornia (1938) by Australian writer Xavier Herbert (1901–1984); in a 1941 letter Herbert stated he had heard the term in his youth.

来源：wiktionary