A phrase born on the streets of Los Angeles. During the early 1990's, several politicians, including Bob Dole had characterized rap artists as Thugs. Indeed, this was taken as an attack on the hip hop community as a whole. Many, including the late Tupac Shakur, had rejected the criminal implication. It was clear to those in the hip hop community that anyone who attempts to rise from despair would be labeled a Thug. Hence, Thug Life became a phrase meaning "the life one must lead in order to rise through the everyday sturggle"; understood by those "in the know" and misunderstood by all others. Today, Thug Life represents a large underground community who's successful members are constantly in the public eye. In several parts of the United States and around the world, small boutiques even carry a "Thug Life" clothing brand, which was founded in Los Angeles in 1996, the year of Tupac Shakur's much publicized shooting. Those wearing the phrase Thug Life are believed to be members of the Thug Life movement. Tupac Shakur's acronym for "Thug Life" is THE HATE U GIVE LIL' INFANTS F**KS EVERYBODY.
THUG LIFETHUGTUPAC2PAC
by thescholar March 27, 2009
a street hustler that is apart of corporate america
Rodney is a real corporate thug because he can converse in the board room... as well with the fellas on the block.
by top dogg September 06, 2005
A man who is a street thug/tough/drug dealer with all the swagger and attire to go with this life but who is actually an "in the closet" homosexual
by netnet May 04, 2004
A Hug you give your home boys that begins with a high five pulling him closer to you and patting his back.
by Sholom22 December 19, 2006
a thug shaker is a black man, typically dressed in a gangster’s attire butt naked dripping with oil twerking.
roku: “ I’m a thug shaker bru ong”
r8vilo: “bru no you ain’t, quit lying!”
roku: *starts twerking like a thugshaker dripping with oil”
r8vilo: “bru no you ain’t, quit lying!”
roku: *starts twerking like a thugshaker dripping with oil”
by @r8vilo May 20, 2022
Another name for the University of Miami Hurricanes football team due to various scandals involving recruitment and scholarship violations, brawls with other teams, coaches inability to control players, association with controversial people and associations, incidents with players involving shootings, stabbings, and murder, and their general thuggish attitude towards fans, officials, opponents, media, and anyone and anything associated with the game of football.
by Jumpincatmusic March 03, 2007
Adj. Presenting the outward appearance of one's identification with urban ghetto culture through affected attitudes, mannerisms, language, or dress.
Deshante sauntered slowly to the principal's office in his F.U.B.U jacket and do rag, making his best effort to look thugged out despite being only twelve years old.
by Carl Willis July 28, 2003