Definition of thug
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Examples of thug in a Sentence
He was beaten and robbed by street thugs.
the Mob boss regularly sent his thugs after people who were slow to pay their debts
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He was routinely referred to as a thug after the dogfighting conviction.
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One day, Johnny arrives with a crew of social media thugs from Mirando to award Okja first place in the superpig contest.
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The thugs were egged on by government indifference.
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If that was a scene from a movie, that thug isn’t going to explain himself.
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If that was a scene from a movie, that thug isn’t going to explain himself.
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Lemons explained, citing the default stereotypes of the gangster and the thug.
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In a sequence of events familiar from places such as Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, the local government was removed, an independent state announced, and a new order imposed based on a miserable mix of Shariah and thug law.
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One thug was described as a man aged 25-30, 170-180 pounds with long hair in a ponytail.
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Origin and Etymology of thug
Hindi & Urdu ṭhag, literally, thief
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