Yob

yob (yb)

noun/slang*
1. A person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness.
He's an ex-con? He might have multiple addiction problems? You haven't heard from him for days and suspect it's because he's up to something nasty? He's not even an attentive mate? Girlfriend, you might be dating a yob.

Synonyms: bezonian, blackguard, brute, bum, cad, caitiff, coward, creep, dog, drunkard, good-for-nothing, heel, hound, ingrate, knave, liar, libertine, loser, lowlife, maggot, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, pariah, pauper, pilgarlic, poltroon, rake, rapscallion, rascal, rat, reprobate, riffraff, rogue, ronion, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, scum, skunk, smell-feast, snake, stinker, toad, tramp, vagabond, varlet, villain, wastrel, worm, wretch , yellow dog.***


* British slang.
** Alteration of boy spelled backwards.
*** But, as Henry Rollins once said: "I've been called worse by people who liked me!"