thug

Converse of object

• hire: The bosses used hired thugs to kill 11 miners, in an action which was hardly reported in the national media.
• stop: If only some manufacturer would offer schools some kind of tracking devices at a reasonable cost to stop these thoughtless thugs!
• see: Jump across, then go in to see a thug run across a hall with the girl.
• dress: Tory chief Michael Howard described the BNP as ' a bunch of thugs dressed up as a political party ' .
• become: Finally, if a plant has become a thug and spread too far, then consider rejuvenating pruning.
• have: You have thugs, drug addicts, violent criminals, idiots, feral children.

Converse of subject

• attack: Last year asylum-seekers were forced to flee the city after being attacked by thugs wearing knuckle-dusters.
• murder: They had been murdered by the same thugs in uniform who had released them into the Mississippi night.

Adjective modifier

• mindless: Religion, Politics or Sport are all often the excuse for mindless thugs to use violence.
• racist: Getting rid of Bowyer should be the priority, you could do without racist thugs who fight their own teammates.
• fascist: The fascist thugs had not figured out our plans.
• murderous: Stalin was a murderous thug who had destroyed the revolution.
• vicious: Maybe some of them are vicious little thugs that need a break.
• drunken: Lots of drunken thugs are ordinary people who got carried away on a bad night.

Modifies a noun

Noun used with modifier

• yate: Premier Division Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:30 pm Subject: YATE TOWN THUGS!
• street: And Salford MP and Police Minister Hazel Blears has backed the campaign and promised more resources to beat street thugs.
• football: To add to the pressure the police warned that football thugs could turn up to support the NF.
• town: Premier Division Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:30 pm Subject: YATE TOWN THUGS!

Preposition: in

• suit: Of course, the BNP is a bunch of Nazi thugs in suits.