Thugging

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    thuggery; the behaviour of a thug uncountable

    "How do the unions enforce this policy? […] It is enforced by crime, by murder, by arson, by dynamite, by thugging and by the bludgeon."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of thug form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"How do the unions enforce this policy? […] It is enforced by crime, by murder, by arson, by dynamite, by thugging and by the bludgeon."

Etymology

From thug + -ing.

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