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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 lar·ri·kin /ˈlærɪkən/
 惡棍(a.)喧鬧的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lar·ri·kin n.  A rowdy street loafer; a rowdyish or noisy ill-bred fellow; a hoodlum; -- variously applied, as to a street blackguard, a street Arab, a youth given to horse-play, etc. [Australia & Eng.] -- a.  Rowdy; rough; disorderly. [Australia & Eng.]
    Mobs of unruly larrikins.    --Sydney Daily Telegraph.
 Note:Larrikin is often popularly explained by the following anecdote (which is without foundation): An Irish policeman at Melbourne, on bringing a notorious rough into court, was asked by the magistrate what the prisoner had been doing, and replied, “He was a-larrikin' [i. e., a-larking] about the streets.”