thuglet
English
Etymology
thug + -let
Noun
thuglet (plural thuglets)
- A violent or delinquent young person.
- 1993, Albert Pyle, "The Best Schools on the Planet", Cincinnati Magazine, January 1993, page 77:
- Do you ever wonder why your children can't talk? Do you ask yourself why the grandmother of an unintelligibly mumbling 14-year-old thuglet speaks with the clarity of Myrna Loy?
- 1995, Michael Hornburg, "Moby Saves", Spin, June 1995, page 54:
- Growing up a single parent's child in the quaint commuter town of Darien, Connecticut (his father died in a car accident when Moby was two), he bonded with the neighborhood thuglets who shared his interest in juvenile delinquency.
- 2004, Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, Henry Holt and Company (2005), →ISBN, page 47:
- Even the kids are often thuglets: At the age of ten I was threatened by a switchblade-wielding lad who is today the president of a prestigious local bank.
- 1993, Albert Pyle, "The Best Schools on the Planet", Cincinnati Magazine, January 1993, page 77: