"hooligan firm" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hooligan firms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hooligan firm (plural hooligan firms)
  1. group that participates in football hooliganism or other sports-related hooliganism Synonyms: football firm
    Sense id: en-hooligan_firm-en-noun-5k-DY1Qp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2021, Katherine Dashper, Sport, Gender and Mega-Events, Emerald Group Publishing, page 83",
          "text": "During the build-up to the UEFA European Championship tournament in 2016, as part of a more prolonged online campaign to disseminate gendered ideological values and nationalist propaganda, one prominent Russian hooligan firm – the 'Gladiators' of Spartak Moscow – published a short video clip on YouTube.",
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