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''Hoon'' is a term used in Australia and New Zealand, to refer to anyone who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviours. In particular, it is used to refer to one who drives a car or boat in a manner which is anti-social by the standards of contemporary society, i.e. too fast, too noisily or too dangerously. In New Zealand, the term "boy racer" is also widely used. Another slang term, revhead—derived from "rev", short for revolutions per minute—is sometimes used in place of hoon. "Anti-hoon laws", while they generally concern road vehicles, sometimes also target anti-social behaviour in motor boats. Hoon activities can include speeding, burnouts, doughnuts or screeching tires.〔(Hoon Driving ), Darebin City Council, 7 August 2008.〕 Those commonly identified as being involved in "hooning" or street racing are young and predominantly male, although increasingly female, drivers in the age range of 17 and 35 years.〔Armstrong, Kerry; Steinhardt, Dale: (Understanding ‘hoon’ culture: An exploratory investigation of perceptions and experiences ), 2006. Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland (Queensland University of Technology).〕 Hoon control laws are beginning to be extended to dangerous and annoying hoon behaviour using boats and other vessels, particularly jet skis. The State of Victoria, Australia passed legislation in late 2009 to control hoon activities using recreational vessels.〔See the Transport Legislation Amendment (Hoon Boating and Other Amendments) Act 2009.〕 ==Etymology== At the turn of the 20th century in Australia, the term "hoon" (and its rhyming slang version "silver spoon" and also "banana") 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.〔〔Richards, Kel: (Hoon ), ''ABC NewsRadio'', 2008.〕 Hoon, when used in relation to people in motor vehicles (or associated with car culture), may be onomatopoeia. One may speak of a car, or its driver, or its occupants in general as "hooning down the road". It could also be a clipped form of "hooligan" or a portmanteau of "hooligan" and "goon" or "buffoon". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hoon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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