thug

Other forms of thug

plural

thugs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thug

What does thug mean?

thug means "an aggressive and violent young criminal".

How many syllables are in thug?

thug has 1 syllable: thug. In IPA it is /ˈθʌɡ/.

What is another word for thug?

Close synonyms include hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, tough. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thug a common word?

thug is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.