Usually means: Aggressive person, often criminally involved.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. thug: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thug: Merriam-Webster
  3. Thug, thug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thug: Collins English Dictionary
  6. thug: Vocabulary.com
  7. Thug, thug: Wordnik
  8. thug: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. thug: Wiktionary
  10. thug: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. thug: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. thug: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. thug: Dictionary.com
  14. thug: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. thug: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. THUG, Thug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Thug: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. thug: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. thug: Rhymezone
  20. thug: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. thug: FreeDictionary.org
  22. thug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. thug: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thug: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. THUG: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Thug (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. thug, thug: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. T.H.U.G, Thug, t.h.u.g: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See thuggery as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who is affiliated with a criminal gang or engages in violent criminal activity.
noun:  (historical) One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and sacrificed their victims to her.
noun:  (horticulture) An overvigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.
noun:  A violent, aggressive, or truculent criminal.
noun:  A wooden bat used in the game of miniten, fitting around the player's hand.
noun:  (African-American Vernacular) 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.
verb:  (informal, transitive) To commit acts of thuggery, to live the life of a thug, to menace, to commit crime.
verb:  (informal, transitive) (often with out) To appear as a thug; to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of a thug.

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