Etymology

droog

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Today it means: A violent young gang member or a hooligan. Full definition →

Russian друг
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  1. Russian · borrowed fromдруг“friend”
  2. English todaydroog

From Russian друг (drug, “friend”), in which sense it is used in the invented slang Nadsat in Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange (1962).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.