yobbo

noun

ˈyä-bō How to pronounce yobbo (audio)
Definition of yobbonext
British
as in thug
a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang some yobbo has been threatening shopkeepers in the East End

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yobbo
  1. thug
  2. criminal
  3. villain
  4. gangster
  5. pirate
  6. yob
  7. ruffian
  8. hooligan
Noun
  • Jewish people in the U.S. have adopted a position of ‘support Netanyahu and his thugs irrespective of the political cost’ approach.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The thug in the seat next to him had 14 prior arrests and went by the name of killer.
    — NPR, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
Definition of thug
Noun
  • The film follows an American student (Seberg) in Paris who loves a dangerous criminal (Belmondo) obsessed with Humphrey Bogart.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The company entices the criminal to click on a tracking link, which provides information about their location.
    — Rachel Hale, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of criminal
Noun
  • In the comics, Sinestro starts off as a member of the Green Lantern Corp, eventually becoming a villain and starting his own Sinestro Corp.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • In Lynch’s festering neo-noir mystery from 1987, Hopper plays a chronic villain perpetually sipping from a tank of amyl nitrate and handing out hits as a way to manipulate his henchmen.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of villain
Noun
  • An hour ago, the stocky British actor best known on these shores for playing tough guys and gangsters was on a morning talk show, after having chatted with Jimmy Fallon the previous evening.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Dealing with the fractious relationship between gangsters and former friends Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, the film strains for an epic quality that the filmmaking doesn’t support.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of gangster
Noun
  • Majima's two combat styles are brilliantly cool, as are customization options for your crew, your looks and your pirate ship.
    — James Perkins Mastromarino, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Children can enjoy the facilities at the hotel’s Kids Club, which has a large outdoor playground featuring a large play pirate ship.
    — Jason Chau, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2025
Definition of pirate
Noun
  • There’s certainly little warmth surrounding the past here, beginning with an eerie, cryptic prologue, set in 1973, that sees a rural wedding crashed by yobs in sinister, medieval-looking straw masks, followed by yellowing newspaper headlines that puzzle over the bride’s subsequent disappearance.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Johnson has more to worry about than just random yobs disrupting the call.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 31 Mar. 2020
Definition of yob
Noun
  • Friends and neighbors worried that these rumors could attract dangerous young ruffians who might harm them and steal the money.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Troy Stecher is a puck-mover with some two-way ability but is not considered a ruffian in the corners and in front of the net.
    — Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
Definition of ruffian
Noun
  • Truth be told, though, the FXE was always too heavy to really qualify as a proper hooligan machine.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Listen to this article Two headphone-snatching hooligans are being sought for robbing seven people in a weeklong spree in lower Manhattan and Staten Island, police said Thursday.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2025
Definition of hooligan
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