thugsta

plural thugstas

1. slangAfrican-American VernacularSomeone who is both a thug and a gangsta.

   This here ain't no romance / It's an urban erotic tale / Hood life, gats, stacked papers / Set a thugsta up to fail

   2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page

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   In an industry dominated by men and images of "thugsta" rappers in the late 1990s and early 2000s with gold grills, tattoos, platinum chains, and dark clothing, bubblegum-chewing [Missy] Elliott popularized a hip-hop wardrobe for urban women that included contemporaneously fashionable unisex athletic gear and oversize clothing in soft, "girlie" colors, as well as de rigueur enormous monogrammed hoop earrings and perfectly manicured fingernails.

   2013, Jonathan C. Friedman, editor, The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 177–178