hood n.1
1. (US, also hod) a gangster, a thug.
in Californian: a Western Monthly Mag. Jan.–June 175: The ‘hood’ who perpetrated the outrage [...] was pointed out. | ||
Stealing Through Life 255: There’s a lot of Hods back there [...] he pronounced the name as though it were ‘Whods.’ I had heard of the Frisco Hoodlum gang. | ||
It’s a Racket! 228: HOOD – Hoodlum; tough character, a criminal with or without a record, or one of criminal tendencies or associations. | ||
Red Wind (1946) 105: What are you back where you live, darling? One of those hoods they call private dicks? | ‘Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’ in||
Man with the Golden Arm 24: How come a guy like me runs all you cheap hoods around. | ||
Fings I i: Big hoods now are little hoods, | Gamblers now do Littlewoods. | ||
Godfather 128: You fuckin hood, who the hell are you to tell me my business? | ||
Inner City Hoodlum 156: Enough time to set themselves up and wait for the young hoods to show up. | ||
Real Thing 12: If I start running away from every shit-pot bloody hood that threatens me [etc.]. | ||
Skin Tight 75: Hoods, dopers, scammers, bikers and stick-up artists. | ||
Crosskill [ebook] ‘He wants to bring in some of his hood friends’. | ||
Powder 4: [She] chased out junior hoods trying to make a name for themselves in a soft establishment. | ||
Guardian Editor 7 Jan. 13: They model themselves on screen hoods and recycle chunks of Puzo’s dialogue. | ||
Atomic Lobster 174: He’s a gangster [...] The guy’s a hood! | ||
All the Colours 304: [L]ike small-time hoods in a gangster film. | ||
Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] We’d have a window of about four hours until the hoods would come out looking for us. | ‘The Dutch Book’ in||
(con. 1962) Enchanters 355: ‘He got his rocks off talking to psychos and hoods’. |
2. a street ruffian.
(con. 1920s) Studs Lonigan (1936) 360: He was cut out for better stuff than being a hood. | Young Manhood in||
(con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 28: Over the tables packed with dope fiends and philosophers [...] artists and hoods, darlings, dreamers, derelicts and every American variety of displaced person. | ||
Bunch of Ratbags 294: I spose Mr Ridgecliff told you I used to be a hood. | ||
(con. 1950s) Age of Rock 2 (1970) 101: The J.D.’s emerged. The hood. | ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen||
Jocks and Burnouts 2: In other places and other times, the Burnouts may have been called ‘Hoods’ or ‘Greasers’. | ||
Teenage Wasteland 208: So-called tough kids, hoods or burnouts. | ||
Lucky You 17: He worked diligently at being a hood, taking up unfiltered cigarets, public spitting and gratuitous profanity. | ||
Jake’s Long Shadow 237: H’s the son. Young hoods got what they deserved. | ||
Guardian G2 14 Oct. 5/1: He wins the role of a stereotypical jive-talking street hood. |