Crossword-Solution: THUGS 5 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

We have 32 clues for the answer “THUGS”

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Violent sorts 1 answer
Unforgiving muscle 1 answer
Underworld toughs. 1 answer
Toughs ... or an anagram of TOUGHS minus a letter 1 answer
They're for roughing you up 1 answer
Some riffraff 1 answer
ROVING bands of fanatical murderers and robbers (hist.) 1 answer
Many rappers' personas 1 answer
Hired intimidators 1 answer
Hired enforcers 1 answer
Gangsta rap characters 1 answer
Gangland guys 1 answer
Cosh wielders 1 answer
Enforcers for the mob 2 answers
Gorillas 2 answers
heavies 2 answers
Mob enforcers 2 answers
Desperados 3 answers
Brutish sorts 3 answers
INDIAN roving bands of fanatical murderers and robbers (hist.) 3 answers
Gangsters. 4 answers
Hired muscle 4 answers
Bruisers 4 answers
Roughnecks 4 answers
Hooligans 5 answers
Tough guys 5 answers
Henchmen 5 answers
Goons 6 answers
Hoodlums 6 answers
'Hoods 8 answers
Ruffians 9 answers
ASSASSINS 9 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with THUGS (5)

What I was about to say was, those thugs have built their entire superstition upon _inferences_, not upon known and established facts.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
When thieves and thugs fall out and fight there's fell arrears to pay; And soon or late sin meets its fate, and so it fell one day That Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike fanged up like dogs at bay.
Ballads of a Cheechako Robert W. Service 2008
The same author, whilst speaking of these female Thugs, relates an anecdote very characteristic of them; a device at which they are adepts, which they love to employ, and which is generally attended with success.
The Zincali George Borrow 2019
There formerly existed in India a "well-organized confederacy of professional assassins" called Thugs, who worshipped the goddess Kali with human lives.
America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat Wu Tingfang 1996
Among the black deeds which Superstition has imposed as duties upon her wretched votaries, none are more horrible than the practices of the murderers, who, under the name of Thugs, or Phansigars, have so long been the scourge of India.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions Charles Mackay 1996

Quotes with THUGS (3)

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone f…
Larken Rose
Criminal activity exploded throughout the city — thugs multiplied by the thousands. Without fear of rebuke, there was nothing to stop them. It is the ultimate penalty that comes with tolerating the intolerant.
Sarah Brownlee How the Tiger Faced His Challenge
How would we get corporate sponsorship if we were just a bunch of thugs?
Kathy Bryson Fighting Mad
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 52 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).