A kid of any age who wears bright colored clothes, tight jeans, too big tee shirts, long benie hats, and puffy shoes usually high tops. They listen to screamo and or hip hop/ rap. Snowboarders or skiers who use wordslike "gnar","ballin","legit", and "sick". They are all players.
Hey look at all those skittle thugs, there getting ready to head up to the mountian.
A person (generally african American) who tries to dress like a hardcore gangster, but cannot afford name brands like Sean John, ENYCE, or any other gangsta apparel. They typically wear clothes from K-mart with brand names such as "SHAQ" or "EVERLAST"
Dude, look at that K-Mart Thug, his SHAQ shoes must have cost like $10.
One who pretends to be gangsta. Used in St. Clair Shores, MI (a suburb of Detroit) to describe the amount of kids posing that they are from the hood. Fitted New Era Yankee hats are usually trademarks of thugganaughts.
A term used by mid to high income jr high and high school kids to describe how they feel as though they are helpless vistems of society.
They are often seen taking selfies of themselves and uploading them to social media with the hashtag, "livingthethuglife". They will be wearing clothing that was purchased for them by their parents that is large enough for a person 300lbs heavier then themselves.
"Living the thug life" -tweet from 15 year old from his new iPhone.