Word: hoolihan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MICHAEL HOOLIHAN Washington
...Hooligan of a long-ago U.S. comic strip [TIME, Nov. 8]. Happy was a harmless wight who was always being socked, never did any socking. Doesn't the word really come from a family of notorious ruffians, active in London at the end of the last century, named Hoolihan or Hooligan...