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yob (also yobbo)
noun
British, informal
yobs showered the police with broken bottles:
hooligan, hoodlum, thug, lout, delinquent, vandal, ruffian, rowdy, troublemaker;
British tearaway;
Australian, New Zealand larrikin;
informal tough, rough, bruiser, roughneck;
British, informal bovver boy, lager lout, chav, hoodie;
Scottish, & Northern English, informal keelie, ned;
Australian, New Zealand, informal roughie, hoon.