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Another word for thug

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Noun

  1. A person who treats others violently and roughly, especially for hire

    See also:

    crimes

    attack

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Another word for thug

Noun
  1. See also:

    robber

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • I blew apart the last thug that tried to get in here.

  • He took out one thug, Mrs. Watson said proudly.

  • Thornton, Illustrations of the History and Practices of the Thugs (London, 1837); Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug (London, 1839; new ed.

  • Like the assassin who obsessed about birthdays and clothing, there were two sides to the man before her: the warm, friendly stranger with whom she'd felt so comfortable she confided to him over the phone without knowing anything about him, and the tattooed thug before them in snug biker leathers.

  • In a heated moment the phrase "jack-booted thug" slips out, and it is all downhill from there.

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