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What's a hoon?
Have you ever heard the word Hoon before? Has anyone ever called you a hoon? Sounds a little dirty doesn't it?
Well it's not, but it isn't a nice thing to be called either.
If you haven't heard of it just yet, it might be because it's originally an Australian term.
It refers to young people that are into really aggressive street driving specially street racing and other dangerous maneuvers on regular streets.
The real life fast and the furious basically. And the term hooning refers to driving recklessly.
No one's exactly sure where the word came from, be it a contraction of the word hooligan or the word (Whin-ems ) Houyhnhnm from Gulliver's Travels. But the word starting appearing at the turn of the last century as a reference to pimp.
And while it doesn't mean that anymore, hooning is still discouraged. In fact, there are now anti-hooning laws in Australia.
So now you know what it means, and now you have one more thing you can call that horrible driver on your Monday morning commute.
Marina in car.."Get out of the way, you HOON!!!"
Have you ever heard the word Hoon before? Has anyone ever called you a hoon? Sounds a little dirty doesn't it?
Well it's not, but it isn't a nice thing to be called either.
If you haven't heard of it just yet, it might be because it's originally an Australian term.
It refers to young people that are into really aggressive street driving specially street racing and other dangerous maneuvers on regular streets.
The real life fast and the furious basically. And the term hooning refers to driving recklessly.
No one's exactly sure where the word came from, be it a contraction of the word hooligan or the word (Whin-ems ) Houyhnhnm from Gulliver's Travels. But the word starting appearing at the turn of the last century as a reference to pimp.
And while it doesn't mean that anymore, hooning is still discouraged. In fact, there are now anti-hooning laws in Australia.
So now you know what it means, and now you have one more thing you can call that horrible driver on your Monday morning commute.
Marina in car.."Get out of the way, you HOON!!!"