thugdom

English

Etymology

From thug +‎ -dom.

Noun

thugdom (uncountable)

1. The condition, state, or world of a thug; thugs collectively
   • 1908, New York Star, number 2, page 213:

     Have the days of thugdom returned to the metropolitan newspaper business?

   • 2014, Don Pendleton, Texas Storm:

     They had fashioned it from the stuff of which the Executioner was made and fanned it to life with the spreading flames of rampant thugdom.