‘You vulgar thug’ is used by a male American speaker to a taxi-driver in The Ginger Man, by J.P.Donleavy, but ‘thug’ is not in general use as a vocative. In third person reference it describes a vicious criminal, having...

Thug may refer to: Thug, (ठग), a member of the defunct Indian cult Thuggee Thug, slang for a gangster or a petty thief Thug, a gardening term meaning an over-vigorous plant that spreads excessively Thug, a wooden bat used in the naturists' game...