Prepared quickly and set to go after hooligan (5-3-5)
I believe the answer is:
rough-and-ready
'prepared quickly' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs can occasionally define each other.
'and set to go after hooligan' is the wordplay.
'set to go' becomes 'ready' (I've seen this in another clue).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'hooligan' becomes 'rough' (rough can mean a hooligan or violent person).
'and'+'ready'='andready'
'andready' put after 'rough' is 'ROUGH-AND-READY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rough-and-ready that I've seen before include "Lacking refinement but serving a purpose" , "Crude but effective" , "Hastily prepared, but adequate" , "Easily improvised" , "Serving well enough for the task" .)