Trendy car word of the month: "Hoon"

[Swanny]

coon hoon

[sinep]

pretty sure Australia made the word "hoon" famous for their "hoon laws" three or four years ago

[frankenbeemer]

At the turn of the 20th century in Australia, the term "hoon" (and its rhyming slang version "silver spoon")[4] had a different meaning: one who lived off immoral earnings (i.e. the proceeds of prostitution – a pimp or procurer of prostitutes).

Linguist Sid Baker in his book The Australian Language suggested that "hoon" (meaning "a fool") was a contraction of Houyhnhnm, a fictional race of intelligent horses which appears in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

Thanks Wikipedia.

[ttrousdell]

Courtesy of Urban Dictionary...

Hoon

1. To travel at speed in a confined area, or do burnouts on a public road in traffic ..
2. To show off in a dagerous manner, mostly with a vehicle or engine powered item ..
Look at that bloody dangerous hoon!!
(YELLED IN ANNOYANCE AT OFFENDER).. YA FUCKIN' HOON!!!

[frankenbeemer]

A hoon tan describes where one arm is tanned from being out the drivers window, whilst the other arm is white from being inside the vehicle all the time.