Meaning of Thug | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who is a member of a gang or criminal organization.
2. A violent, aggressive, or truculent person.
3. A criminal that extorts people.
4. A person who use intimidation to coerce others.
5. One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and sacrificed their victims to her.
   historical
6. One who, usually as a result of social disadvantage, has turned to committing crimes (e.g. selling drugs, robbery, assault, etc.) to make a living; a gangsta.
7. An overvigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.
8. A wooden bat used in the game of miniten, fitting around the player's hand.

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Examples

“They call you a land of license—free but to thug and thief.”

“Every summer brought the prospect of the dragonships snaking their way upriver, each vessel filled with thirty or more rapacious thugs.”

“I pushed up out of my chaise and headed for the miniten court. Leah handed me her thug as I walked past her.”

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