different between hoodlum vs repeater

English

Etymology

First attested in a December 1866 Daily Alta California article, which mentions "the 'Hoodlum Gang' of juvenile thieves". Several possible origins have been proposed. It may derive from a Germanic word like Swabian hudelum (“disorderly”) or Bavarian Haderlump (“ragamuffin”).

Herbert Asbury's book The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld (1933, A. A. Knopf, New York) says the word originated in San Francisco from a particular street gang's call to unemployed Irishmen to "huddle 'em" (to beat up Chinese migrants), after which San Francisco newspapers took to calling street gangs "hoodlums".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hu?dl?m/, /?h?dl?m/
• Hyphenation: hood?lum

Noun

hoodlum (plural hoodlums)

1. A gangster; a hired thug.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:criminal
2. A rough or violent youth.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:troublemaker

Usage notes

• A short form, "hood," also exists.
• A nonstandard, jocular plural hoodla (treating the word like a Latin noun) also exists.
• The behavior of a hoodlum may be referred to as "hoodlumism."

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References

Further reading

• “Frederick Bee History Project”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[2], accessed October 4, 2014

English

Etymology

repeat +? -er

Noun

repeater (plural repeaters)

1. One who or that which repeats.
2. (education) A student repeating a course or class.
3. (medicine) A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
4. (marketing) A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
5. (US) One who votes more than once at an election.
6. In ufology and similar studies, a person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.

   Note – this term is more commonly used by skeptics of the paranormal, and implies that the witness lacks credibility.

7. (firearms) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
8. A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
9. (electronics) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
10. A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
11. (nautical) A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
12. (nautical) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)

13. (mathematics) A repeating decimal.
14. (textiles) In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.

Derived terms

• banner repeater

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Anagrams

• Pear Tree, pear tree, peartree, repartee, repartée, rerepeat