⇨ hobber de hoy; hibber de hoynoun an adolescent boy, especially a hooligan. Recorded as rhyming slang by Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992; but probably directly from 'hobbledehoy', first recorded in 1540, which, excepting the nuance of hooliganism, is synonymous; 'hobbledehoy', however, is unlikely to be rhyming slang as the earliest explicit reference to rhyming slang does not appear until about 300 years later in John Camden Hotten's The Slang Dictionary, 1859 UK, 1992