LekhoriLekhoriEllipsis of football hooligan.
These excursions abroad confirm that displacement has actually been a feature of the development of hooligan conflicts for some time, but an important wider point is that domestic hooligan displacement also seems to be a much more central issue today, as policing and other control strategies (segregation, seating, stewarding and CCTV in and around the larger English football grounds) have become more comprehensive, and especially as sentences for hooliganism have become much more forbidding.
A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific.
One year there was a strong wind. We couldn’t catch herring, but they were there. We caught lots of hooligans (smelt) and got through the year on those.
To act as a hooligan (etymology 1, sense 1).
To treat (a person) roughly.
Probably a variant of the Irish surname Houlihan, 1890s.
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