Usually means: Aggressively rude, violent, or lawless.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word thuggish:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. thuggish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thuggish: Merriam-Webster
  3. thuggish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thuggish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Thuggish, thuggish: Wordnik
  6. thuggish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. thuggish: Wiktionary
  8. thuggish: Dictionary.com
  9. thuggish: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thuggish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thuggish: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thuggish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See thug as well.)

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adjective:  (derogatory) Characterized by thuggery; behaving in a violent or intimidating way; appearing to be violent or intimidating.
adjective:  (obsolete) Resembling or characteristic of the assassins known as thugs or Thuggees (often capitalized in this sense).

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