thugdom

noun

thugdom

noun

Etymology From thug + -dom.

1

The condition, state, or world of a thug; thugs collectively

Have the days of thugdom returned to the metropolitan newspaper business?1908, New York Star, number 2, page 213:
They had fashioned it from the stuff of which the Executioner was made and fanned it to life with the spreading flames of rampant thugdom.2014, Don Pendleton, Texas Storm:

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