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thugsta

thugsta noun: someone who is both a thug and a gangsta.

Noun

thugsta (plural thugstas)

  1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Someone who is both a thug and a gangsta.
    • This here ain't no romance / It's an urban erotic tale / Hood life, gats, stacked papers / Set a thugsta up to fail2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page
    • In an industry dominated by men and images of "thugsta" rappers in the late 1990s and early 2000s with gold grills, tattoos, platinum chains, and dark clothing, bubblegum-chewing [Missy] Elliott popularized a hip-hop wardrobe for urban women that included contemporaneously fashionable unisex...2013, Jonathan C. Friedman, editor, The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 177–178

Forms of thugsta

pluralthugstas

Origin of thugsta

Blend of thug + gangsta.

Questions about thugsta

What does thugsta mean?
Thugsta means someone who is both a thug and a gangsta.
What part of speech is thugsta?
Thugsta is a noun.
What is the plural of thugsta?
The plural of thugsta is thugstas.

Words near thugsta in the dictionary

  1. thugness
  2. thugocracies
  3. thugocracy
  4. thugs
  5. thugs it out
  6. thugsta
  7. thugstas
  8. thugz
  9. Thuir
  10. thuja
  11. thujaplicin

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