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Definition of Thugs
1. thug [n] - See also: thug
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thugs
Literary usage of Thugs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"We have no tourists of either sex or any religion who are able to resist the
delights of the bull-ring when opportunity offers; and we are gentle thugs in ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"In the Punjab we find two cases of murders by thugs as late as 1896; while in
Rajputana, Central India and Hyderabad the increase in the last three or four ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"THE ASSASSINS AND thugs. THE astounding disclosures relative to the system ...
But, excepting the mythological tale related by the southern thugs of their ..."
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