How to pronounce thug
Listen to thug in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“thug” in real sentences
134 clips in the index · 32 American · 16 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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This guy called me a thug.
PBS NewsHour · hear it here
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He was relating Christ to, like, a thug, a gangster.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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Tommy Robinson, you know, convicted criminal thug, um white supremacist."
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
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Keith Rollinson was violently attacked by a teenage thug and died in hospital.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of thug. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.