hoon

Meanings

1. A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.
2. A pimp.
3. A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.
4. An attempt or go at something.

1. To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.

1. To make a hooting or howling sound.

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.

1. A pagoda, a type of gold coin.

1. A surname from Dutch.
2. A civil parish (without a council) in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2231).

Etymology

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.