[ noun ] an aggressive and violent young criminal <noun.person>
Hoodlum \Hood"lum\, n. A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow; colloquially, called also {hood}. [Colloq. U.S.]
Just tell your hoodlum friends outside You ain't got time to take no ride. --Yakety-Yak (Song) [PJC]
WESTIES The court rejected appeals by four men and a woman convicted for their roles in a hoodlum gang, the Westies, in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City.
Tony Danza is Gus Farace, the minor New York hoodlum whose murder of an undercover narcotics agent made him the target of a major manhunt.