The phrase "big thug" is not technically considered incorrect in English, but it is important to note that it is an example of slang.
Generally, it should not be used in formal written English. It can be used in informal settings, such as in conversations between friends or in fiction. For example: "I saw a big thug walking around the corner, I thought I was going to get mugged!".
Martha Stewart is the biggest thug up in here".
"In fact, Judea was so much of a hood that Rome sent Pontius Pilate, the biggest thug governor in the empire, to manage it.
In a bygone era of great fighters when heavyweights like Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman were king, Sonny Liston was viewed as the ultimate WWE-type heel, a villainous character of epic proportions who people considered the biggest thug on boxing's biggest stage.
"Imagine the colossal expense of constructing the kind of endless higgledy-piggledy encampment full of prostitutes and pedlars and what have you, in honour of one of the biggest thugs and creeps in world history, " says the chopped-up mayor.
Mandy Moore lends her voice to the long-locked princess; Jeffrey Tambor (as "Big Nose Thug") and Donna Murphy offer vocals as well.
At the same time, his entire defence was precisely and explicitly premised on how much Trayvon Martin "looked like" a big, black "thug", and how reasonable it was to be suspicious and alarmed when Trayvon – doing nothing more than walking toward his father's house – resembled someone who "might be" a "predator" engaged in a "rash" or a "spree" of crime.
The game had become big business, thugs and punks had become less of a problem, and crowd safety had been improved.
She can subdue a line of big-chested thugs with a flare of her nostril.
When we first encountered him, in The Hunter, published in 1962, he was a bit of a thug, "big and shaggy, with flat square shoulders and arms too long in sleeves too short", resembling the actor Jack Palance on whom Stark had modelled him.
And while specific alliances may come and go, both countries are part of a big fraternity of thug governments which long ago learned the byways of the U.N. and how to exploit them.
