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Etymology

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FromHindiठग(ṭhag,“swindler, fraud, cheat”).

Thuggee was a network of gangs in India from the 17th century to the 19th century who robbed and murdered travellers, often by strangling and beating their victims to death. DuringBritish Imperial rule of India, many Indian words passed into common English, and by 1810thug referred to a member of these Indian gangs. The sense was adopted more generally as "ruffian, cutthroat, and cruel robber" by 1839. Related toEnglishthatch,deck.

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thug (pluralthugs)

  1. A person who is affiliated with a criminal gang or engages in violent criminal activity.
  2. (historical) One of aband ofassassins formerly active in northernIndia whoworshippedKali and sacrificed theirvictims to her.
    Synonym:phansigar
  3. (horticulture) An overvigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.
  4. A violent, aggressive, ortruculent criminal.
    • 1915, Cale Young Rice, “My Country”, inCollected Plays and Poems,page342:
      They call you a land of license—free but tothug and thief.
  5. A woodenbat used in the game ofminiten, fitting around the player's hand.
    • 2021, Anna Durand,Natural Satisfaction:
      I pushed up out of my chaise and headed for the miniten court. Leah handed me herthug as I walked past her.
  6. (African-American Vernacular) One who, usually as a result of social disadvantage, has turned to committingcrimes (e.g. selling drugs, robbery, assault, etc.) to make a living; agangsta.

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Translations

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someone who treats others violently or roughly
a member of the Thuggee band of assassins
a person who is affiliated with a criminal gang—seehenchman

Verb

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thug (third-person singular simple presentthugs,present participlethugging,simple past and past participlethugged)

  1. (informal, transitive) To commit acts ofthuggery, to live the life of a thug, tomenace, to commitcrime.
    • 1854,My Ducats and My Daughter, volume II,page247:
      Mr. Ingleby ascertained at the office—after threading the mazes of passage and staircase as though he expected momently to beThugged—that his nephew had not yet come.
    • 1968, Harry Wellington Laidler,Boycotts and the Labor Struggle,page302:
      The report then records the arrest of the whole force of the union paper, theVictor Record, the forced resignation of many other civil officers in the Cripple Creek district who were in sympathy with the miners,[…] the severethugging of many of the well-known labor organizers,
    • 1972, F. Maurice Speed,Film Review,page219:
      C.C. and Company. Another story about the young American motor-cycle hoodlum gangs: raping,thugging and robbing their way along the roads.
  2. (informal, transitive)(often without) To appear as a thug; to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of a thug.
    • 2003 April, Dorian Missick, quotee, “Clothesline: Dorian Missick”, inPlayboy Magazine, page44:
      I don’tthug out, but I’m not Wall Street, either. Russell Simmons and Puffy have clothes for this look in the affordable range.
    • 2006, Katina King,Ride Wit’ Me,page11:
      Oh. Besides Allen Iverson, basketball players don’t bethugged out enough for me. I like me a roughneck.
    • 2017, Todd Dedman, quoting research participant ‘Luke’,Purists and Peripherals: Hip-hop and Grime Subcultures,page169:
      Well, I’d like to see more positive images of black men. Ones that don’t just go on about having a big dick,thugging and bashing on some girl.

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishthug, fromHindiठग(ṭhag).

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Noun

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thug m orf (pluralthugs)

  1. (derogatory)thug,yob.

Irish

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thug

  1. analyticpastindicative oftabhair

References

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  1. ^Quiggin, E. C. (1906)A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page73

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thug (dependenttug)

  1. past ofthoir
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