Word Finder - thugs

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Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire.

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One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her.

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In gardening, an over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.

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A punk; a hoodlum; a hooligan.

His wariness scared her as much as the thugs had.

You weren't there when them thugs followed me in Scranton and I made out pretty good, I'd say.

There were thugs in the streets, bars on the windows of sagging houses, and cars on blocks.

They were too well-dressed, and their eyes glowed with something unnatural, like Jonny's and those of the thugs he stationed outside her apartment.

She hadn't seen any of Jonny's thugs around, and no one sneaked into her place last night to break her other arm.

The Thugs were a well-organized confederacy of professional assassins, who in gangs of whom 10 to 200 travelled in various guises through India, wormed themselves into the confidence of wayfarers of the wealthier class, and, when a favourable opportunity occurred, strangled them by throwing a handkerchief or noose round their necks, and then plundered and buried them.

His chief agent, Captain (afterwards Sir William) Sleeman, with several competent assistants, and the co-operation of a number of native states, succeeded in completely grappling with the evil, so that up to October 1835 no fewer than 1562 Thugs had been committed, of which number 382 were hanged and 986 transported or imprisoned for life.

According to the Thuggee and Dacoity Report for 1879, the number of registered Punjabi and Hindustani Thugs then still amounted to 344; but all of these had already been registered as such before 1852, and the whole fraternity may now be considered as extinct.

Dread sinking into her stomach, Jessi obeyed, the other thugs trailing her.

Not all us here are thugs.

The security guard had previously been assualted by a gang of young thugs, including the charred chump.

Jessi didn't say what she wanted, that prissy Ashley wasn't the type to roam the streets with thugs.

She backed away, too aware of the heat of his body and the strength it took to do what he'd done to the three thugs.

His governor-generalship (1827-1835) was notable for' many reforms, chief among which were the suppression of the Thugs, the abolition of suttee, and the making of the English language the basis of education in India.

His two most memorable acts are the abolition of suttee and the suppression of the Thugs.

Between 1826 and 1835 as many as 1562 Thugs were apprehended indifferent parts of British India, and by the evidence of approvers the moral plague spot was gradually stamped out.

By some modern authorities he is supposed to have been the founder of Thuggism, the Thugs having a special reverence for his memory.

He made the continued killings "of those thugs" sound like good news, but emphasized it was only a matter of time until the might of right and justice would prevail and calm would return to Parkside.

Some thugs threw a ten month old collie into a busy road in Park Avenue, Bedford.

But they weren't the ones who took to the streets and riots - they were Islamist fanatics, malcontents and thugs.

And in pilot projects throughout the country, the scheme had been successful in dealing with young thugs.

These thugs were acting at someone else's bequest - no doubt for money or for more sinister machinations of organized crime.

The trail of evidence leads to an Irish mobster and his thugs called the ' O'Grady Gang ' .

Young thugs who pulled down stalls at a country market for a " mischievous prank " could face a flogging, magistrates have warned.

On New Years Eve, a gang of 30 thugs at the East Essex hunt had attacked saboteurs.

The bosses used hired thugs to kill 11 miners, in an action which was hardly reported in the national media.

If only some manufacturer would offer schools some kind of tracking devices at a reasonable cost to stop these thoughtless thugs!

You have thugs, drug addicts, violent criminals, idiots, feral children.

Last year asylum-seekers were forced to flee the city after being attacked by thugs wearing knuckle-dusters.

They had been murdered by the same thugs in uniform who had released them into the Mississippi night.

Religion, Politics or Sport are all often the excuse for mindless thugs to use violence.

Getting rid of Bowyer should be the priority, you could do without racist thugs who fight their own teammates.

The fascist thugs had not figured out our plans.

Maybe some of them are vicious little thugs that need a break.

And Salford MP and Police Minister Hazel Blears has backed the campaign and promised more resources to beat street thugs.

To add to the pressure the police warned that football thugs could turn up to support the NF.

If only some manufacturer would offer schools some kind of tracking devices at a reasonable cost to stop these thoughtless thugs !

Tory chief Michael Howard described the BNP as ' a bunch of thugs dressed up as a political party '.

Kiefer Sutherland played a tough teenager who was the unofficial leader for a group of local thugs.

Dar is prince by birthright who can communicate with animals, and seeks revenge on thugs who murdered the people of his village.

Story missions are unlocked by completing specific objectives, so in between events you'll be able to explore to your heart's content and beef up your reflexes by either rescuing helpless citizens or taking down street thugs.

You can explore the seamy underbelly of the Barbary Coast past on the "Drugs, Thugs, Crimps and Pimps" tour, or go strolling on the "Flashback" tour, which takes you to the city's storied, formerly acid-drenched Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

You can explore the seamy underbelly of the Barbary Coast's past on the "Drugs, Thugs, Crimps and Pimps" tour.

Thugs are less likely to mess with you if they know you might be carrying a weapon.

Nowadays these tattoos are sported by true thugs as well as people who simply like the style, even if they aren't thugs in any sense of the term.

Script tattoos are common choices for everyone - not just thugs - but whether a lettering tattoo falls into the category of a thug tattoo has to do with the placement of the tattoo and the meaning behind the tattoo.

Thugs want to convey the message that they are in charge and they don't care about what anyone else thinks.

True thugs want to show everyone else that they are tougher than them, so a painful, elaborate arm sleeve tattoo combining lettering and dark images is a popular choice.

Thugs want to show the world that they aren't afraid of pain, and that society rules don't apply to them.

He was sued by similarly named artist Souljah Boy of the Mo' Thugs Family, who claimed Soulja Boy stole his name.