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thug

noun
🔊/θʌɡ/
🔊/θʌɡ/
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  1. a violent person, especially a criminal恶棍；暴徒；罪犯
    • He was beaten up by a gang of thugs.他让一伙流氓给暴打了一顿。
    • The people who do these sorts of things are just mindless thugs.做这类事情的人就是盲目的暴徒。
    Topics Crime and punishmentc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • teenage
    • young
    • street
    • …
    … of thugs
    • bunch
    • gang
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    Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally referring to a member of an organization of robbers and assassins in India): from Hindi ṭhag ‘swindler, thief’, based on Sanskrit sthagati ‘he covers or conceals’. The current sense arose in the mid 19th cent.