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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Thursday, July 12, 2012

hood (2)


Meaning: a criminal, a member of a criminal gang
For example:
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  • She loves watching those old black and white movies from the 40's and 50's full of cops and private eyes and gangsters and hoods.
  • Sometimes movie directors would employ real-life hoods to play bit parts in their gangster films.
Note: This is fairly dated slang now, but it was very popular from the 30's to the 60's. A hood was often regarded as of lower status than a gangster. While a hood would probably wear street clothes, a gangster would probably wear a suit and tie.

Origin: short for "hoodlum"; first appeared in American English in the 1930's

Variety: This slang is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

Quick Quiz:
Jimmy says his grandpa was a hood back in the 40's and 50's. He'd tell Jimmy stories about his life as
  1. a popular entertainer
  2. a small-time criminal
  3. a baseball player
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