plug-ugly

noun

ˈpləg-ˌəg-lē How to pronounce plug-ugly (audio)
Definition of plug-uglynext
as in thug
a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang sent over a couple of hulking plug-uglies to rough up the store owner

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plug-ugly
  1. thug
  2. villain
  3. gangster
  4. criminal
  5. pirate
  6. assassin
  7. hoodlum
  8. bandit
Noun
  • The climax, in which Dwight and his crew beat a group of nameless Chinese immigrant thugs into submission after they’re used as cannon fodder by Cal Thresher to sabotage Dwight’s wind turbines, is more important to the plot and even uglier.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Like other Diablo games, Hades would support cooperative multiplayer, but in the Arkham games, groups of thugs would circle around the Dark Knight, comic-book style, waiting to be punched in the face.
    Jason Schreier, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of thug
Noun
  • Marlena’s John is an iconic hero, and unfailingly rescuing her from all matter of villains.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The film stars, of all people, Hugh Grant, who is said to have an amazing turn as a villain in the film.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of villain
Noun
  • Many Japanese action films are too much about fantasy, either Yakuza [gangsters] or serial killers.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Liam Neeson, in perhaps his final appearance in an action film, portrays a gangster trying to make amends.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of gangster
Noun
  • Its undeniably a humanitarian crisis and a very real security threat because of drug cartels, criminals and terrorists crossing the border.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Jordanians will soar like eagles to hunt you down, one criminal after another.
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of criminal
Noun
  • Tickets went on sale Thursday for the illuminated tradition, a 1.5-mile crawl through the park with thousands of twinkling lights creating tunnels, elves, snowflakes, a basketball-tossing Santa, pirate ships and even dinosaurs.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • One young girl stared slack-jawed in shock at Rodrigo while the other crew of kids with her — including a few Care Bears and a pirate — grabbed handfuls of treats from her bowl.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of pirate
Noun
  • Harris' lead is driven by older women voters and women independents. Nov. 3: Trump escalates violent rhetoric, suggesting at a Pennsylvania rally that an assassin would have to shoot through the news media to hit him.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
  • And during this year’s election, the FBI foiled a plot by Iran to pay an assassin $1 million to kill Donald Trump.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of assassin
Noun
  • While Muhammad Ali made his professional boxing comeback with a win against Jerry Quarry at Atlanta’s Municipal Auditorium on October 26, 1970, a group of hoodlums robbed the Black Mafia of more than $1 million in cash and jewelry at a nearby after-party.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The Chicago Crime Commission’s president was outraged when an Indiana prosecutor posed for a newspaper photographer with his arm around Dillinger earlier in 1934 while the hoodlum awaited trial for killing a police officer during a bank robbery.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2024
Definition of hoodlum
Noun
  • But the pandemic-era inflationary period played out unlike any other in history, and wealthy people made out like bandits.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
  • When the film starts, a cursed bandit of pirates led by Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) are aboard Sparrow’s former ship, the Black Pearl, and have kidnapped Turner’s love interest, Elizabeth Swann (Knightley).
    Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of bandit
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