thug
noun/θʌɡ/
/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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- teenage
- young
- street
- …
- bunch
- gang
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally referring to a member of an organization of robbers and assassins in India): from Hindi ṭhag ‘swindler, thief’, based on Sanskrit sthagati ‘he covers or conceals’. The current sense arose in the mid 19th cent.
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