Meaning

8 senses
  1. A person who is a member of a gang or criminal organization.

  2. A violent, aggressive, or truculent person.

    an aggressive and violent young criminal

  3. A criminal that extorts people.

  4. A person who use intimidation to coerce others.

  5. (historical)One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and sacrificed their victims to her.

  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.

Examples

66 sentences
  1. Tom is a thug.

    Том — головоріз. — deniko

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  2. I know Tom is a thug.

  3. I know that Tom is a thug.

  4. Tom has been acting like a thug.

  5. Are you a thug?

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
someone who treats others violently or roughly:
Русский
By meaning 1
someone who treats others violently or roughly:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
someone who treats others violently or roughly:

Origin

Borrowed from Hindustani ठग (ṭhag) / ٹھگ (ṭhag, “swindler, fraud, cheat”), further derived

Borrowed from Hindustani ठग (ṭhag) / ٹھگ (ṭhag, “swindler, fraud, cheat”), further derived from Prakrit 𑀞𑀕 (ṭhaga), of uncertain origin. See there for more.

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