JUVENILE DELINQUENTS Synonyms: 52 Similar Words

juvenile delinquents

noun

plural of juvenile delinquent

as in gangsters

a young person who has committed a crime

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Noun

British gangsters colliding with the Italian Mafia just feels so right for our world.

— Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2026
Live actors would appear throughout, sometimes as gangsters in a noir crime movie, and sometimes as Wild West cowboys.

— Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of gangsters

Noun

But as with any good Leonard story, the best moments come from the characters, a rogues’ gallery of violent ruffians and neurotic, duplicitous scoundrels.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
The series has lent a cinematic gangster attraction to the Peaky Blinders, yet the term itself was not one gang — as depicted in the show — but a generic expression from the late 19th century for the ‘street ruffians’ of Birmingham, born out of the city’s ring of poverty.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2026

Definition of ruffians

Noun

The plot against Zeraati is part of a widening campaign by the Iranian government which involves hiring criminals—Russian mobsters, Hells Angels bikers, and even Swedish teen-agers—to attack its detractors and sow fear among Iranians in exile.

— Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026
The new manager solved the Bang Records problem by walking into a Ninth Avenue warehouse and handing over $20,000 in cash to two mobsters dressed to the nines.

— Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of mobsters

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That a Christian man was responsible for the devastation in Oklahoma City certainly didn’t matter to the thugs who terrorized a Muslim woman there, nearly seven months pregnant, by attacking her home, breaking her windows, screaming religious slurs.

— Reshma Memon Yaqub, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Some of the thugs were actual neo-Nazis, led by real-life Russian fascist Maksim Martsinkevich, who would later be imprisoned for posting racist videos, investigated for murder and, in 2020, found dead in his cell of an apparent suicide.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of thugs

Noun

His warning was meant for American eyes and ears at least as much — if not more so — than for the government in Jerusalem that until now has encouraged the hoodlums by tolerating their violence.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
In the past decade, the leadership of the Kinahan organization has become rich and cosmopolitan, and their life styles have started to resemble those of international businessmen more than of street hoodlums.

— Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of hoodlums

Noun

Infantry has been around since officers figured out how to get soldiers organized instead of fighting in melees like football hooligans on a Saturday night after 12 pints of lager.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Sep. 2026
But we were being held up by some hooligans fighting in front of us.

— Aston Villa, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of hooligans

Noun

Where else are the punks gathering and the people gathering, or even just to go dig through the stacks or make new friends?

— E.R. Pulgar, SPIN, 1 Sep. 2026
Ancient Egyptians understood hardware just like punks understood hardware just like bikers understood hardware just like I, walking through my office metal detector every week, understand hardware.

— Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of punks

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