By extension: Any one who acts in a cruel, violent, or wicked manner; a ruffian, desperado; a villain. Hence as a term of reproach. Obsolete.

A robber, a plunderer; a ruffian, a rogue.

A violent, overbearing, or quarrelsome person (or thing personified); a blustering bully. Now somewhat rare except as in sense A. 2b.

gen. A ruffian.

A brutal or lawless villain; a violent criminal, a thug. Also in weakened sense: any rough or disreputable person.

Probably: a bully (see bully, n.1 3 4). Obsolete. rare.

Applied to a person noted for violent or destructive action; one who acts with furious and resistless energy.

Originally: a man given to or characterized by riotous, thuggish, and threatening behaviour; one who behaves in a blustering, swaggering, and…

Chiefly in Italian contexts: = ruffian, n. (esp. in sense 2b).

A person who tears or rushes along or about; a ranter, roisterer, swaggerer, bully.

A person using or inclined to use violence; a violent person.

Without specifying word (esp. as the boys). Ruffians, yobs, hooligans, thugs. Cf. b'hoy, n.

A violent person. Usually in plural.

A physically tough person who acts regardless of conflict or danger; an aggressive or pugnacious person; a ‘hard man’. Now chiefly U.S.

A person likened to an Arab. derogatory. An unruly or belligerent person. Obsolete.

U.S. Extraordinary; ferocious. Chiefly in combinations designating a powerful, violent, or remarkable person or (occasionally) thing, or a ferocious…

U.S. History. Chiefly with capital initial(s). Usually in plural. A member of a street gang based in Baltimore, Maryland, whose members made violent…

A very violent storm (now without implication of thunder), affecting a limited area, in which the wind… figurative; cf. tempest, n., storm, n., whir…

One who storms or rages; one who makes a wild agitation.

A young street rough, a member of a street gang. Also attributive and transferred.

/əˈpaʃ/. Also apache. A street ruffian or thug, originally in Paris. Also (more widely): a person who behaves in a ruffianly manner.

A stupid or worthless person; a good-for-nothing; spec. a hooligan, thug, yob, or petty criminal. Also used as a general term of disapprobation.

Australian. A thug, a ruffian. Now rare.

In early use: a lascivious woman. Now: a mad or violent person; an idiot; (also in weakened use) a person.

(See quots.)

A thug, ruffian; a ‘heavy’.

a person given to hard-headed, violent, or lawless behaviour.

A ruffian; a hooligan or miscreant.

A lout, a rough; a crazy person, a ‘clot’; a ponce.

Originally and chiefly U.S. A tough or belligerent person; a ruffian; a troublemaker.

= tough baby n.

A lout, a hooligan.

A physically aggressive, violent, or intimidating person.

Anthony Burgess's word for a member of a gang (see quot. 1962); a young ruffian; an accomplice or henchman of a gang-leader.

One of a despised social group; a lout, a boor, a hooligan, an obnoxious person.