hoon

A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.

'You flash hoon,' he went on, 'Kiddin' you're white, eh?[…].'

A pimp.

When the girls were sick, the hoons would beat the shit out of them and put them back on the street.

A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.

Police have impounded an average of 10 cars a day since hoon laws were introduced by the State Government in June 2006. Hoon related offences include burnouts, doughnuts, drag racing, repeated driving while disqualified and high-level speeding. Offences are detailed in section 84C of the Road Safety Act 1986.

The hoons piled out of the wreck brimming with righteous road rage, and were settling to the task of beating the shit out of Wozza, Mutton and the hapless wheelman when they discovered the plastic bag.

An attempt or go at something.

The stars of Happytime Murders give Kiwi slang a hoon

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To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.

[…] you've hooned off – it's fair to say hooned off – at quite a high speed.

Cruising, hooning and street machining all involve the social use of public space where young people can exert agency by independently engaging with their surroundings. Young people use public space to meet their needs, and not always in the way a specific space was designed for. One example is that an industrial area may be used as a prime site for hooning and street racers to congregate because it is less frequently under the gaze of authorities.

To make a hooting or howling sound.

All this time, every night, and sometimes most of each night, the hooning whistling of the Room was intolerable. It was as if an intelligence there knew that steps were being taken against it, and piped and hooned in a sort of mad, mocking contempt.

Black flashing storms, the lowings and bellowings of the old sanded forest, the whistling and hooning of nameless birds, the lonesome moons, the weird fifteen-foot stone dwellers of the Old Priory, soft grassy slopes on which lovers lay, […]