[Ads-l] hoon

[Jonathan Lighter]

It used to be to "stooge about."

JL

On Sun, Nov 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM Nancy Friedman
<00001b7f50001087-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> 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:
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> >
> > 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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