[θʌɡ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a violent, aggressive person, especially one who is a criminal
(e.g: he was attacked by a gang of thugs)

- a member of a group or organization of robbers and assassins in India who waylaid and strangled their victims, usually travellers, and stole their belongings. They were suppressed by the British in the 1830s


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Origin:
early 19th century (in thug): from Hindi ṭhag ‘swindler, thief’, based on Sanskrit sthagati ‘he covers or conceals’. thug arose in the mid 19th century