thug
noun/θʌɡ/
/θʌɡ/
- a violent person, especially a criminal
恶棍；暴徒；罪犯 - He was beaten up by a gang of thugs.
他让一伙流氓给暴打了一顿。 - The people who do these sorts of things are just mindless thugs.
做出这种事的人简直就是无心的暴徒。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- teenage
- young
- street
- …
- bunch
- gang
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally referring to a member of an organization of robbers and assassins in India): from Hindi ṭhag ‘swindler, thief’, based on Sanskrit sthagati ‘he covers or conceals’. The current sense arose in the mid 19th cent. - He was beaten up by a gang of thugs.