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The word hooligan has been used since at least the mid 1890s, when it was used to describe the name of a street gang in London, at approximately the same time as Manchester's street gangs, known as the Scuttlers were gaining notoriety. The first use of the term is unknown, but the word first appeared in print in London police-court reports in 1894 referring to the name of a gang of youths in the Lambeth area of London - the Hooligan Boys.

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