Definitions for thug

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Spelling: [thuhg]
IPA: /θʌg/

Thug is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in thug (ghtu).

Definitions for thug

noun

  1. a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
  2. (sometimes initial capital letter) one of a former group of professional robbers and murderers in India who strangled their victims.

Origin of thug

First recorded in 1800-10, thug is from the Hindi word thag literally, rogue, cheat

Examples for thug

The Kremlin loses a useful propaganda tool, but it also eliminates a thug with a lot of Russian blood on his hands.

About every day I have to send for the sheriff and have some thug arrested.

I also made a thug chase movie with a bunch of my friends in high school.

He had changed from a thug into a determined, ambitious man.

In his infamous deposition video, you can clearly see that the “thug life” façade is stripped away.

Maybe the thug even used to be you, until you went straight.

Of course it seemed ridiculous that a thug should strangle the old man.

Women would refuse to go near any man with thuggish associations, for real—barely a thug could expect to get any action.

His fist hit the thug in the elbow, just as the man's hand reached for his knife.

I'm going to catch this thug and I'll tell you how I'll do it.

Word Value for thug
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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