yobboes

Rowdy young louts

Yobboes is a plural of yobbo, British and Australian slang for a rough, uncouth, or rowdy young man—essentially a hooligan or lout: A group of yobboes were causing trouble outside the pub.

The term carries connotations of antisocial behavior, heavy drinking, and working-class aggression.

Also spelled yobbos.

rowdy

hooligans

Violent young troublemakers

brawlers · troublemakers · tearaways · boors · rioters · vandals · delinquents · rascals · scoundrels · roughnecks

antisocial

vandalism

Willful property damage

menacing · threatening · aggressive · public nuisance · drunken · disorderly · offensive · loitering · fighting · swearing

uncouth

boorish

Crudely ill-mannered

loutish · oafish · churlish · cloddish · unrefined · crude · rude · ill-mannered · uncultured · uncivilized

Opposites
social refinement and conduct

yobboesgentlemen

Men of refinement

ladies · sophisticates · polite society · pillars of the community

class and cultural markers

yobboestoffs

Wealthy, fashionable Britons

aristocrats · gentry · upper-crust · highbrows · blue bloods

Family

yobbo, yobbos

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG