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thug it out

thug it out verb: to endure; to tough it out.

Verb

thug it out (third-person singular simple present thugs it out, present participle thugging it out, simple past and past participle thugged it out)

  1. (US, intransitive, slang) To endure; to tough it out.
    • We can work without the perks, just you and me
      Thug it out ’til we get it right2007, Timbaland, The Clutch, Keri Hilson, D.O.E., “The Way I Are”, in Shock Value, performed by Timbaland, D.O.E., and Keri Hilson
    • He wasn’t worried about contracting the virus, and spun the situation with the kind of edge that would make Supreme founder James Jebbia proud. “You’re a New Yorker, you kinda thug it out,” he said.2020 March 12, Sam Schube, “‘You Kinda Thug It Out’: The Supreme Line in the Age of Coronavirus”, in GQ, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2020

Forms of thug it out

third-person singular presentthugs it out
present participlethugging it out
past participlethugged it out
pastthugged it out

Origin of thug it out

Evoking thug life and connoting the assertion that thuggish behavior is a necessary evil.

Questions about thug it out

What does thug it out mean?
Thug it out means to endure; to tough it out.
What part of speech is thug it out?
Thug it out is a verb.
What is the past tense of thug it out?
The past tense of thug it out is thugged it out.

Words near thug it out in the dictionary

  1. Thue-Morse sequence
  2. Thue-Morse sequences
  3. Thueson
  4. Thuesons
  5. thug
  6. thug it out
  7. thug life
  8. thug lives
  9. thugdom
  10. thugduggery
  11. thugee

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