thugdom

English

Etymology

From thug +‎ -dom.

Noun

thugdom (uncountable)

  1. The condition, state, or world of a thug; thugs collectively
    • 1908, New York Star, number 2, page 213:
      Have the days of thugdom returned to the metropolitan newspaper business?
    • 2014, Don Pendleton, Texas Storm:
      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.
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