Word of the day: "hoon"

While driving the Suzuka track in rFactor on Saturday, and repeatedly driving off the track, I had the word "hoon" stuck in my head; as in "driving like a hoon" or "I need to stop hooning it up," but I couldn't figure out where I'd got it from or if that was even correct usage for it. I happened to check out Jalopnik over coffee this morning and saw that they use the term pretty regularly, even having tag categories for hoon and hoonage. So I'm assuming that that's where I picked it up.

According to Wikipedia:

Hoon is a derogatory term used in Australia and New Zealand to refer to a younger person who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviour. In particular, it is used to refer to one who drives in a manner which is anti-social by the standards of contemporary society, that is, fast, noisily or dangerously. Hoon activities can include speeding, burnouts, doughnuts or screeching tires.[1] Those commonly identified as being involved in "hooning" or street racing are young, predominantly commodore drivers who are male although increasingly female drivers in the age range of 17 and 35 years.

(I'm guessing that "commodore drivers" doesn't refer to the Commodore 64, but I like how unspecific--and uncapitalized--it is there.)

The word has even entered into the legal vocabulary Down Under:

In New South Wales, the word "hoon" is actually contained in the name of the legislation: the Road Transport Legislation Amendment (Car Hoons) Act 2008 enacted in July 2008 introduced new measures against street racing and offences, and increased fines. Previous legislation provided for the vehicles of repeat offenders to be forfeited to the Crown, but the Car Hoons Act allowed the confiscated vehicles to be utilised for crash testing by the Roads and Traffic Authority, for educational and deterrence purposes as well as to test the effect of certain vehicle modification of the roadworthiness of the car.

I like it. It's a nice, compact word that describes what we spent a lot of our adolescent and near-post-adolescent years doing.