thugdom en · NOUN
Etymology
From thug + -dom.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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: