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  • noun Plural form of lout.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lout.

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Examples

  • For many fans not just the talk radio louts, that is terribly frustrating.

    Moorad to Buy Padres? 2009

  • The foreigners are presented as big-nosed, racist louts, which isn't offensive as much as disappointing.

    Mania News Feed 2010

  • The foreigners are presented as big-nosed, racist louts, which isn't offensive as much as disappointing.

    Mania News Feed 2010

  • Mr Betts called the louts "untouchables", because of their apparent free pass to run amok and not be fined.

    Star News Group 2009

  • Therefore, it is more newsworthy to see footage of police acting thuggishly, ‘out of character’, in the manner of exactly the kind of louts they’re supposed to protect us from … than it is to read the undeniably sad story of an officer dying in the course of his duty.

    Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Even poor Maggie does her best, gracefully lowering herself towards the level of these coarse British and Irish louts.

    The Graham Norton Show: Safe on the sofa Sam Wollaston 2010

  • It's rather beside the point to say that the jeering louts probably aren't a majority of the students.

    Incivility on the left 2011

  • I protested again, I'm not Emilio Estevez, only to be drowned out by the three louts who were now singing, completely off key, shot down, in a blaze of glory!

    I'm Not Emilio Estevez Christian Bell 2011

  • "Occupy is nothing but a pack of louts," he writes, †...

    Stanley Rogouski: The Untouchables of Zuccotti Park Stanley Rogouski 2011

  • Even the drunken louts awaiting their feast fell silent and sober, as the shaking continued till it rose high enough to make Asgard itself tremble.

    The Pig’s End « A Fly in Amber 2009

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