hobbledehoy

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Noun
  • As Wilford Brimley, Glenn Close and an urchin in a newsboy’s cap look on and the music begins to swell, Roy Hobbs sends that last pitch screaming into the rightfield lights—which triggers a chain reaction of cinematic explosions.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Without its keystone predators, the balance of the coastal ecosystem can shift to damage control: urchins strip kelp forests, waves hit harder, and the quiet rhythm of life shifts.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And Markey has defeated whippersnapper-type political foes before.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The reasons for the show’s appeal are manifold, starting with the odd-trio chemistry of the three leads (Short, plus his longtime co-conspirator Steve Martin and relative whippersnapper Selena Gomez).
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Seeing my friend so comfortable in comfort, my old guttersnipe buddy who’d once lived for years in actual squalor, felt odd.
    Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Our point-of-entry into the world of competitive bloodsport is Tenax (Iwan Rheon, better than the inconsistent writing), a former guttersnipe who has risen to control a wildly successful gambling concern tied to the chariot races in the Circus Maximus.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2024
Noun
  • The door is opened by Ms. Etienne, 75 — a wry, sinewy woman with a gamin haircut.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Liliane Montevecchi, a glittering French gamin who became a cabaret star in Paris, a pal of Marlon Brando’s in Hollywood, and the Tony Award-winning ‘‘muse’’ of director Tommy Tune on Broadway, died June 29 at her home in Manhattan.
    Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
Noun
  • Use of complementary and alternative medicine in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Children and adolescents ages 2 to 18, without other high-risk factors like immunosuppression, can receive and should be offered the vaccine if they were not immunized before, according to the guidance.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Ben Lewis Doherty, playing a boy named Sam whose life is upended by Robbie, is the show’s greatest innocent, a softhearted moppet who warns deer to be careful when crossing the street.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Gabriel Byrne shows up as a nasty villain known as the Chancellor, who has kidnaped the adorable moppet Ella (Ava Joyce McCarthy) and whisked her off to a bucolic Alpine village where a society of ruthless killers are able to raise, and train, their children in peace.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Santos has also been charged with allowing a juvenile to have possession of a firearm.
    KC Baker, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This is the third time in less than a week that a juvenile has been hit and seriously hurt or killed by a vehicle.
    Jennifer Edwards Baker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With Brodin back, youngster David Jiricek came out of the lineup against his former team, Columbus.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In a new layer, the storyline taps into the fresh embrace of Islam by some youngsters in France with second and third generation migrant roots.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Hobbledehoy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hobbledehoy. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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