Thug
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Thug may mean:
- A member of the now-extinct Indian cult Thuggee. This is the origin of the word.
- A ruffian, a miscreant, a person who behaves in an aggressive manner towards others.
- A Thug, or pewter-burner, is one of the types of allomancer in the fantasy Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson.
- In the U.S.A., a petty criminal, especially one who assaults victims (an enforcer) on the instructions of a crime boss or other higher-up in organized crime.
- Thug, a hip hop slang term.
- Some gardeners use the word "thug" to mean an over-vigorous plant that spreads excessively.
- A wooden bat used in miniten, the tennis-like naturist game.
As an acronym, THUG may mean:
- Tony Hawk's Underground.
- T.H.U.G is also part of the acronym, T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E derived by the late hip hop lyricist Tupac Amaru Shakur. T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E spelling out The Hate You Give Little Infants F**ks Everybody
- T.H.U.G.S. Is an acronym popularised by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, mainly Flesh-N-Bone who named his Debut Album T.H.U.G.S., T.H.U.G.S. stands for Trues Humbly United Gathering Souls.
- T.H.U.G. To Rap artist Z-Ro Represents True Hero Under God