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Bookmark or Share- The unlikely origins of the word 'thug' - BBCIn the US, "thug" is a loaded term. It's surfaced a lot in recent months, usually surrounding protests against the deaths of young black men in various American cities. Activists and cultural...
- Thug | Thuggee, Robbery, Murder | BritannicaThug, member of a well-organized confederacy of professional assassins who traveled in gangs throughout India for several hundred years. (The earliest authenticated mention of the thugs is found in Ẓiyāʾ-ud-Dīn Baranī, History of Fīrūz Shāh, dated about 1356.) The thugs would insinuate themselves.
- thug noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes ...noun. /θʌɡ/ a violent person, especially a criminal. He was beaten up by a gang of thugs. The people who do these sorts of things are just mindless thugs. Topics Crime and punishment c2. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin. Definitions on the go.
- Thug Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterAn authoritarian government willing to use the most brutal means to hold on to power; a dictator whose thugs have murdered, tortured, imprisoned or intimidated tens of thousands of civilians … — Michiko Kakutani
- THUG definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionarythug in American English. (θʌɡ) noun. 1. a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer. 2. (sometimes cap) one of a former group of professional robbers and murderers in India who strangled their victims.
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