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チンピラ, ちんぴら

  • chinpira,chinpira

Definition

noun (common) (futsuumeishi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'

  • (young) hoodlum
  • small-time yakuza
  • delinquent boy
  • delinquent girl
  • hooligan
  • punk

Examples of チンピラ,ちんぴら in a Sentence

その若者が女の子をちんぴらの連中から救った。
The young man saved the girl from a bunch of hoodlums.
昨夜会社からの帰宅の途中で、私はチンピラの一団に徹底的に叩きのめされてしまった。
I was beaten up by a gang of hoodlums on the way home from work.
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