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noun

Thug n.

One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.

An assassin; a ruffian; a rough. "Thugs and midnight rounders."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... blood gushing from the wound, crumpled at his feet, John tossed away the neck of the bottle and barely had time to side-step the onrush of the other thug, who struck viciously at him with the fist armored with the knuckles. As they drew back John was in the position of a boxer, standing lightly on his toes, his left hand extended with the shoulder drawn up to protect his chin, which rested ...

— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson

... anything to me," Mead replied, smiling. "I reckon likely he is a thug, or a crook of some sort, but he ...

— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly

... from one of the surgeons who had treated the wounded man in the hospital and one also from the other thug who had witnessed and taken part in the attack corroborating the charge that Terry ...

— Fred Fearnot's New Ranch - and How He and Terry Managed It • Hal Standish

... the South "like lightning had at last leaped forth, half startled at itself, its feet upon the ashes and the rags," its hands tight-gripped on the throat of tyrant, thug, and thief. ...

— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon

... the land of the orange and myrtle?" where the Thug crawls cautiously with his strangling cord, and the tiger welcomes you with his ...

— Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas • W. Hastings Macaulay

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