[Ads-l] hoon

[Nancy Friedman]

A fun bit of Australian/New Zealand slang! The article's author, Michelle
Starr, is in fact Australian, as are the founders of ScienceAlert, where
the article originally appeared.

I wrote about "hoon" (verb: to drive recklessly) and "hoon around" in 2011,
when the terms were beginning to appear in US media:
https://fritinancyblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/word-of-the-week-hoon/


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On Sun, Nov 8, 2026 at 9:35 AM Jonathan Lighter <
00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

>
> https://www.yahoo.com/tech/science/articles/mysterious-asteroid-accelerating-space-were-210000994.html
>
> KY26 is hooning about like a ne'er-do-well – that is, accelerating in a way
> that defies expectations for how a well-brought-up asteroid ought to
> behave.
>
> JL
> --
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