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thugdom

thugdom noun: the condition, state, or world of a thug; thugs collectively.

Noun

thugdom (uncountable)

  1. The condition, state, or world of a thug; thugs collectively
    • Have the days of thugdom returned to the metropolitan newspaper business?1908, New York Star, number 2, page 213
    • They had fashioned it from the stuff of which the Executioner was made and fanned it to life with the spreading flames of rampant thugdom.2014, Don Pendleton, Texas Storm

Origin of thugdom

From thug + -dom.

Questions about thugdom

What does thugdom mean?
Thugdom means the condition, state, or world of a thug; thugs collectively.
What part of speech is thugdom?
Thugdom is a noun.

Words near thugdom in the dictionary

  1. Thuesons
  2. thug
  3. thug it out
  4. thug life
  5. thug lives
  6. thugdom
  7. thugduggery
  8. thugee
  9. thugees
  10. thugess
  11. thugesses

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