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    How did the word "hood" referring to someone of a possible criminal dealings come about?

    Question #120219. Asked by 29CoveRoad. (Feb 04 11 3:35 PM)


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    		hood 2
    n. Slang
    1. A hoodlum; a thug.
    2. A rowdy or violent young person.

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Hood



    1871, Amer.Eng. (first in a San Francisco context and identified in the 1870s as "a California word") "young street rowdy, loafer," later (by 1877) "young criminal, gangster;" of unknown origin, though newspapers have printed myriad stories concocted to account for it. A guess perhaps better than average is that it is from Ger. dial. (Bavarian) Huddellump "ragamuffin."

    http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hoodlum



    Feb 04 11, 5:41 PM

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