Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to thug
Participle: thugged
Gerund: thugging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | thug |
| you | thug |
| he;she;it | thugs |
| we | thug |
| you | thug |
| they | thug |
Perfect
| I | have thugged |
| you | have thugged |
| he;she;it | has thugged |
| we | have thugged |
| you | have thugged |
| they | have thugged |
Past
| I | thugged |
| you | thugged |
| he;she;it | thugged |
| we | thugged |
| you | thugged |
| they | thugged |
Pluperfect
| I | had thugged |
| you | had thugged |
| he;she;it | had thugged |
| we | had thugged |
| you | had thugged |
| they | had thugged |
Future
| I | will thug |
| you | will thug |
| he;she;it | will thug |
| we | will thug |
| you | will thug |
| they | will thug |
Future Perfect
| I | will have thugged |
| you | will have thugged |
| he;she;it | will have thugged |
| we | will have thugged |
| you | will have thugged |
| they | will have thugged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | thug |
| you | thug |
| he;she;it | thug |
| we | thug |
| you | thug |
| they | thug |
Perfect
| I | have thugged |
| you | have thugged |
| he;she;it | have thugged |
| we | have thugged |
| you | have thugged |
| they | have thugged |
Imperfect
| I | thugged |
| you | thugged |
| he;she;it | thugged |
| we | thugged |
| you | thugged |
| they | thugged |
Pluperfect
| I | had thugged |
| you | had thugged |
| he;she;it | had thugged |
| we | had thugged |
| you | had thugged |
| they | had thugged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would thug |
| you | would thug |
| he;she;it | would thug |
| we | would thug |
| you | would thug |
| they | would thug |
Perfect
| I | would have thugged |
| you | would have thugged |
| he;she;it | would have thugged |
| we | would have thugged |
| you | would have thugged |
| they | would have thugged |
Imperative
| you | thug |
| we | Let's thug |
| you | thug |
Verbs conjugated like 'thug'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'thug'
chug,
hug,
shug,
thig,
thud,
tug,
bug,
chig,
chud,
chum,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Hindustani ठग (ṭhag) / ٹھگ (ṭhag, “swindler, fraud, cheat”), further derived from Prakrit 𑀞𑀕 (ṭhaga), of uncertain origin. See there for more.
2. Thuggee was a network of gangs in India from the 17th century to the 19th century who robbed and murdered travellers, often by strangling. During British Imperial rule of India, many Indian words passed into common English, and by 1810 thug referred to a member of these Indian gangs. The sense was adopted more generally as "ruffian, cutthroat, and cruel robber" by 1839. Perhaps related to English thatch, deck. See: English '
thatch'.
Sample Sentences
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Mr. Ingleby ascertained at the office—after threading the mazes of passage and staircase as though he expected momently to be Thugged—that his nephew had not yet come. [1854, My Ducats and My Daughter, volume II, page 247:]
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The report then records the arrest of the whole force of the union paper, the Victor Record, the forced resignation of many other civil officers in the Cripple Creek district who were in sympathy with the miners, […] the severe thugging of many of the well-known labor organizers, [1968, Harry Wellington Laidler, Boycotts and the Labor Struggle, page 302:]
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C.C. and Company. Another story about the young American motor-cycle hoodlum gangs: raping, thugging and robbing their way along the roads. [1972, F. Maurice Speed, Film Review, page 219:]
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I don’t thug out, but I’m not Wall Street, either. Russell Simmons and Puffy have clothes for this look in the affordable range. [2003 April, Dorian Missick, quotee, “Clothesline: Dorian Missick”, in Playboy Magazine, page 44:]
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Oh. Besides Allen Iverson, basketball players don’t be thugged out enough for me. I like me a roughneck. [2006, Katina King, Ride Wit’ Me, page 11:]
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Well, I’d like to see more positive images of black men. Ones that don’t just go on about having a big dick, thugging and bashing on some girl. [2017, Todd Dedman, quoting research participant ‘Luke’, Purists and Peripherals: Hip-hop and Grime Subcultures, page 169:]