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English
Etymology
From thug + -let.
Noun
thuglet (plural thuglets)
- A violent or delinquent young person.
1993 January, Albert Pyle, “The Best Schools on the Planet”, in Cincinnati Magazine, 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 June, Michael Hornburg, “Moby Saves”, in Spin, 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, published 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.