Definitions for thug
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armernoun

   an aggressive and violent young criminal

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. thugnoun

   A criminal who treats others violently and roughly, especially for hire.

2. thugnoun

   One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Thug

   So High is a song by American rapper Thug/452088" target="_blank">Slim Thug, released on September 30, 2010, as the second single from his third studio album, Tha Thug Show (2010). The song, produced by Nard & B, features vocals from fellow American rapper B.o. B.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Thugnoun

   one of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Thug

   thug, n. one of a class of professional robbers and assassins in India—a kind of secret religious fraternity, murdering stealthily by strangling or poisoning with datura, extirpated 1826-35: any cut-throat ruffian.—ns. Thuggee′, Thug′gery, Thug′gism, the practice and superstition of the Thugs. [Hind., thag, thug, cheat.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thug

   One of an association of robbers and murderers in India, who practiced murder not by open assault, but by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. thugnoun

   Someone who has gone through a lot of hardship in life and becomes a thug-- you don't have any money so you make money by any means necessary. Livin' life thug style -- Tupac (To live and die in L.A.). Thugees, originally, were a murderous Gang in India during the British Colonial period. They were associated with the worship of Kali, the Hindu goddess of Death. Thugees were the bad guys in the Indiana Jones movie "Temple of Doom". Sometime in the late eighties, a fashion for all things Asian emerged in the black-power circles, especially among Nation of Islam and its splinter groups. See Wu-Tang Clan. Thugs were an answer to Gangstas. Gangstas, the argument went, came from Europe (the Italian Mafia). But Thugs came from Asia.

2. thugverb

   To be a thug. You ain't thuggin' if you ain't ridin' on chrome now -- B.G. (Rollin' Raw)

3. thugverb

   To steal

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1. THUG

   What does THUG stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the THUG acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Karen

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of thug in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of thug in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of thug in a Sentence

1. Michele Woodhouse:

   I do not understand how anyone in American public office could call Zelensky a' thug' while Ukraine is under such vicious assault, let's be clear. The thug is Vladimir Putin.

2. Freddie Gray:

   Whether we call them a thug, a law breaker, a juvenile delinquent, it really doesn't matter. What matters is how do we take back our streets. And that's what men have been doing, going around, talking to these young men where they, are in their face, and letting them know, you can't control this community. It is not yours. You can't burn it down. You can't force people out. You can't threaten people.

3. Zheng Jianbang:

   The fascist thug cut off all 10 fingers of the elderly woman, the old lady refused to disclose any information resolutely.

4. Sebastian Gorka:

   If you have a broad historical sense you will understand that even if Putin says he's killing terrorists or even if China says they're fighting the Uyghur nationalists that doesn't mean they're on our side, putin is a former KGB colonel, he's a thug, he's a vicious man. He runs a country in which journalists get murdered if they disagree with the Kremlin. China is the world's last communist dictatorship. It may be running around doing quasi-capitalist things but it is a one party state and to say that we have shared interests. No Mr. Trump, we don't and we should really stick to the friends we already have.

5. Chuck Schumer:

   Forty-two Republican senators chose today to stand with Vladimir Putin, i'm extremely disappointed that many of my Republican colleagues are too afraid of breaking with President Trump to stand up to a thug.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=thug
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thug
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thug
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thug
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=thug
6. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html