how to pronounce thug

/θʌɡ/

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thug is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of thug in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… general thug folks you people say …”

meaning of thug

A thug is a person who commits a crime, usually a violent crime, for personal gain.

thug frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word thug occurs in english on average 2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics thug can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that thug can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;