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thug

/thuhg/US // θʌg //UK // (θʌɡ) //

暴徒,暴民,恶棍

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a violent, lawless, or vicious person, especially one who commits a crime such as assault, robbery, or murder: It wasn't uncommon for hired thugs to intimidate shop owners until they paid up.
    • : one of a former group of professional robbers and murderers in India who strangled their victims.

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Examples

  • Mike has busted broncos, been tossed by bulls, alienated his former wife with his stoicism and, most recently, taken on various thugs.

  • To do so, he had to lie that these prisoners hadn’t really wanted better conditions, that they were just violent thugs.

  • Starting in 1997, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Roth held a series of hearings that portrayed IRS agents as menacing thugs.

  • A militia group called the Kenosha Guard last year created a Facebook event page that encouraged people to “take up arms” and defend the Wisconsin city from “evil thugs.”

  • Today’s vision of these ancient relations is as distant from old views of Neanderthals—unintelligent cave thugs, the losers of our family tree—as modern astronomy is from the idea of a universe bounded by the Milky Way.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • If we risk ourselves against these fellows, and are victorious, will not every Thug in the land cry Shabash!

  • After all, Sahib, cannot you now understand the excitement which possesses the soul of a Thug in his pursuit of men?

  • We hear so much of him, that, by Bhowanee, perhaps an unlucky old Thug like myself may pick up something new.

  • The old Thug and myself had been bound together, and we were in this state thrust into one of the narrow cells of the jail.

  • I and another Thug were directed to watch their movements, while the main body went on.