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Discover LudwigSentence The word "yobbo" is not usually considered correct for use in written English.
However, it is an informal and slang Australian term that usually refers to a loutish, brutish person. Example sentence: The kids at the park were being disruptive, and it was clear they were a bunch of yobbos.
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A TYPICAL English football fan, a reader of Bill Buford's "Among the Thugs" might assume, is a tattooed yobbo with a "fat, flat bulldog face" and a T-shirt bedribbled with cheeseburger grease and cheap vodka.
He added: "The fact that 50 yobbo, fascist scum turn up and aren't prepared to listen to debate, I absolutely refuse to believe is representative of Scottish public opinion".
"So it's not that difficult for some yobbo at a hedge fund to sell a stock short, tell someone on a trading desk that he's heard that the company's about to blow up, and then sit back and watch the news work its way through the market".
This improbable yobbo, Mark Twain, had risen up from the buried life of the mines and the boiler rooms and done an amazing thing.
He talks about overstretched hospitals, disrespectful children, yobbo culture, how he was mugged in Brighton recently.
One year, though, an undercover agent fellow approached us, a bloke dressed like a yobbo: thongs, acid-wash jeans, goatee beard, flannie shirt.
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Those shooting scenes chill, exhilarate and scream like torn tin, a clogged catharsis, and the casting of genuine British soldiers (including a "yobbo -obsessed Simon Mann) adds a The Act of Killing frisson of mimetic horror.
The Victorian police and FFA started an anti-violence campaign at the start of the season, with dob-in-a-yobbo hotlines, ticket regulations and more surveillance of fans.
Her family was well-connected but not aristocratic, for Sloanes merely adored from below the titled few, just as they scorned from above all yobbos, oiks and noovos.
It is easy to get some yobbos to attack a policeman; if he hits back, the footage can be made to look disproportionately brutal.
Dysfunctional as many of them might be, all pool-hall yobbos know that to touch an untouchable ball is to relinquish the table, irrespective of who might or might not have noticed.
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