What's the difference between chug and thug?

Chug


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Holliday chugs home, and the Sox are in some kind of trouble here, the kind that four base hits can bring early on in a World Series Game Three.
  • (2) Avoid the polluting chugging houseboats that cruise along the motorway-like larger canals and take a kayak for a tenth of the price through the smaller, unexplored waterways.
  • (3) Memorable examples include his drinking bout with Professor Henry Louis Gates' arresting officer, Sgt Crowley, or his chugging a few bottles while awkwardly bowling to pacify nervous, middle-class white voters in Pennsylvania during the primaries.
  • (4) Meanwhile, the sax parped sleazily and the monotone chug of the guitar presaged punk.
  • (5) One specific moment I was able to replicate multiple times on PS4 was a campaign scene that ran smoothly on Xbox 360 and PS3, while the game chugged On PlayStation 4.
  • (6) "It chugged down the middle of the river a couple of rod-lengths away from me like a tug boat.
  • (7) Three days after taking office, Bush proposed the No Child Left Behind education reform bill, which chugged steadily to passage about a year later.
  • (8) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
  • (9) On that occasion your condition and demeanour, the result of your drinking, so shocked some of the audience nearest the platform that they left in shame and disgust ... Tony Abbott Tony Abbott’s 2015 antics included shirtless post-coup partying, and chugging schooners with students in Sydney pubs.
  • (10) We took the road train back from the stones to the visitor centre, and, as we chugged along, I asked an elderly American gentleman where he was from: "Virginia," he replied.
  • (11) Andre Brown is the one who chugs in for the one-yard score after New York’s drive was extended by a pass interference in the end zone.
  • (12) Switzer, who said many environmentalists are “watermelons” because they conceal “socialist agendas”, said Klein’s call to racially reshape capitalism is “a radical agenda, it’s bad politics because stands almost no chance of gaining widespread support, not just in Australia especially in developing countries chugging their smoking path to prosperity”.
  • (13) At home they greedily chug down a quart of amped-up babyccino .
  • (14) It's surrounded by nice bourgeois houses; buses chug past; there's something about the look of it which is simply not sérieux.
  • (15) He believes western companies have been guilty of “industrialising the creative process”, introducing resource-intensive procedures that chug along to the tune of “more with more” but are no longer sustainable in a resource-constrained world.
  • (16) Guerrero was still chugging after his man but more hesitantly – and shipped another lovely right in centre ring as he paused between exchanges.
  • (17) Anyone who boards a "jeepney" (a US Army jeep, flamboyantly converted for public transportation) there gains insight into the culture of repurposing and improvisation that keeps the city chugging along, whichever natural, political, or infrastructural disasters may come.
  • (18) Saints 0-6 Seahawks, 0:37, 1st quarter Seattle extend their advantage, Lynch not quite engaging Beast Mode but ripping off a few nice short runs as his team chug their way from their own 35 up to the New Orleans 31, from where Hauschka converts a 49-yard kick.
  • (19) He chugs forward a little and then attempts to direct a 20-yard shot into the far corner.
  • (20) At a time when many of her contemporaries were chugging cocktails in Blighty, Agatha Christie was paddling out from beaches in Cape Town and Honolulu to earn her surfing stripes.

Thug


Definition:

  • (n.) One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thugs are distributing leaflets threatening to "wipe us out" and children in schools are being taught that the Rohingya are different.
  • (2) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
  • (3) "It took 21 days to get my hands on the brilliant Thug Life, whereas the book took me 77 days," he writes.
  • (4) But with a murderous thug ejected from power, who could object?
  • (5) Here's one entry: 1995: The government is full of jack-booted thugs in bucket helmets.
  • (6) In Ya’alon’s place is set to come a man routinely described as a thug, even if he did once serve as foreign minister.
  • (7) During the police repression of the Tunisian revolution, they were beaten by security thugs, and in rural areas around Kasserine some were raped by police after demonstrations.
  • (8) The commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, said today that armed officers protecting Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as their car was attacked by student protesters showed "enormous restraint" and condemned the "thugs" who attacked the vehicle.
  • (9) After all, every veto holder had attacked another country in defiance of the charter, but no one had ever disputed the alleged Westphalian right of each anointed thug to mistreat his "own" people.
  • (10) "Free speech is a principle of our democracy, but the thugs that prompted violence ... represent in no way shape or form the Canadian way of life," Dimitri Soudas, the chief spokesman for the prime minister, Stephen Harper, said.
  • (11) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
  • (12) She has no problem combining the roles of mother and hitperson: during one exchange of fire, she offs three thugs, then turns to her daughter and asks, "Honey, should we get a puppy?"
  • (13) Not surprisingly, the Thugs caught the imagination of the British at home (which is how the word "thug" entered the English language), and became a touchstone for colonial justifications for ruling India.
  • (14) Bikers for Trump: 'He'll get my vote because he's off his goddamn rocker' Read more Although Cleveland is the most fortified city in America at the moment, with thousands of police, FBI and secret service agents securing the Republican national convention, David – who won’t give me his last name but says he is from Minnesota – worries about “agitators” and “thugs” who make him feel unsafe.
  • (15) "If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves," Major General Michael T Flynn, then the senior US military intelligence official in Afghanistan, was quoted as saying .
  • (16) Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a longstanding critic of Obama’s foreign policy credentials, urged the president to “do something” rather than deliver what he called empty threats to “thugs and dictators”.
  • (17) You used to be pretty certain, when a killing happened, that it was the work of the state, or thugs in the pay of the state.
  • (18) One of the emails mentioned Watson, who strongly denied any involvement, but the Sun branded him “a Brownite thug”.
  • (19) How embarrassing that some members of the government appear to have behaved in the manner of uncouth thugs – and towards someone representing the UN, which dared to question the bedroom tax.
  • (20) Hosni Mubarak launched his counter-revolution today, sending waves of armed thugs to do battle with pro-democracy demonstrators in Cairo and other cities.