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Hooligan vs Delinquent - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between hooligan and delinquent

is that hooligan is a person that causes trouble or violence while delinquent is one who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.

As an adjective delinquent is

late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.

hooligan

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal, pejorative) A person that causes trouble or violence.

    • Synonyms

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    Related terms

    * hooliganism

    See also

    * lout * thug * yob, yobbo

    Descendants

    * German: (l) * Greek: * Russian: ** Armenian: * Serbo-Croatian: English eponyms ----

    delinquent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
    • Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
    The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
  • Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense

    • Synonyms

    * (late or failing to pay a debt) defaulting

    Derived terms

    * delinquency * juvenile delinquent * moral delinquent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
  • (obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.

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