as in thug
a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang
some yobbo has been threatening shopkeepers in the East End
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As young George traverses the city, the viewer glimpses many things that actually happened, including the catastrophic flooding of a Tube station being used as a shelter and the destruction of nightclub Café de Paris, later looted by a crew of thugs led by Stephen Graham’s Albert.Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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But just as ruthless gang leader Mason (Mekhi Phifer) and his thugs arrive to tie up their loose ends, Shaw rescues her.Courtney Howard, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
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Greg Rucka and Eduardo (100 Bullets) Risso craft a soul-slicing tale of the far end of honor among criminals.Josh Weiss, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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The department sent the sample to the national DNA database, known as CODIS, which law enforcement agencies often use to connect known criminals to unsolved crimes.Antonio Planas, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Also key in the Nightmare voice cast was Broadway veteran Page, who was the speaking and singing voice of the movie’s main villain Oogie Boogie.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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But Kent, Davis, and Wiseman manage to turn it into a compelling and moving psychological thriller, where the real villain turns out to be grief.Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
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This was the era of Prohibition, dominated by bootlegging gangsters—Chicago alone was said to be home to 1,300 gangs—and some police departments adopted increasingly brutal tactics to wring the truth out of suspects: beating and burning detainees with cigarettes, or depriving them of sleep.Susan Saulny, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Kevin Hart’s Chicken Man is on the ground, breathing hard in fear, as Samuel L. Jackson’s badass gangster Frank Moten, known as the Black Godfather, holds a gun.Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2024
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First came the porch pirates, the people who stole delivered packages from front doors, betting there would be less than a thousand dollars of goods in them.The Editors, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
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Snapshot one: on the eve of leaving home, my grandmother, recalling stories of pirates and thieves, sews her few valuables into the waist of her pants.Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024
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There’s certainly little warmth surrounding the past here, beginning with an eerie, cryptic prologue, set in 1973, that sees a rural wedding crashed by yobs in sinister, medieval-looking straw masks, followed by yellowing newspaper headlines that puzzle over the bride’s subsequent disappearance.Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
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Johnson has more to worry about than just random yobs disrupting the call.Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 31 Mar. 2020
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Then again, the fight scene did that on its own, sounding more refined than ruffian.Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2024
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Despite their reputation as ruffians from the sticks, RSF troops are battle tested, disciplined, and armed to the teeth.Alex de Waal, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2023
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The 1989 Hillsborough disaster, Britain's deadliest sports tragedy, sparked a rush to judgment: football hooligans, the scourge of English sports in the 1980s, were blamed.Joshua Dupuy, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Onstage, Idles felt like a powder keg ready to blow, turning a Queens audience into socially conscious soccer hooligans for the night.William Earl, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
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