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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A mischievous, troublesome, or unruly person.

Wiktionary

  1. n. an unruly, rowdy or mischievous person
  2. n. an evil person
  3. n. the larva of the dobsonfly
  4. adj. cursed, ill-fated

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man)

Etymologies

  1. Probably alteration (influenced by hell) of dialectal hallion, worthless person. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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‘hellion’ has been looked up 1689 times, loved by 4 people, added to 30 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 10.