"thug life" meaning in All languages combined

See thug life on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: thug lives [plural]
Etymology: Popularised by American rapper Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) in 1993. Head templates: {{en-noun|~|thug lives}} thug life (countable and uncountable, plural thug lives)
  1. (often ironic) A life in which one has to go through many struggles, like that of poor gangstas. Wikipedia link: Tupac Shakur Tags: countable, ironic, often, uncountable
    Sense id: en-thug_life-en-noun-3NRXnc4o Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Popularised by American rapper Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) in 1993.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thug lives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "thug lives"
      },
      "expansion": "thug life (countable and uncountable, plural thug lives)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I didn’t choose the thug life. It chose me.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 September 22, Wayne Johnson, “Thug Life – Why This Raised So Much Hell”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):",
          "text": "Too many young Black men have adopted this thug life pose.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Black Dot, Hip Hop Decoded: From Its Ancient Origin to Its Modern Day Matrix, page 165:",
          "text": "For all of these rappers claiming to live the thug life, there's really no difference.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Michael Jeffries, Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop, page 107:",
          "text": "Whether death refers to biological death or serves as a metaphor for oppression and marginalization (social death), the potential for collective reconciliation with death is linked to his identity as a nigga living thug life.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A life in which one has to go through many struggles, like that of poor gangstas."
      ],
      "id": "en-thug_life-en-noun-3NRXnc4o",
      "links": [
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "struggle",
          "struggle"
        ],
        [
          "poor",
          "poor"
        ],
        [
          "gangsta",
          "gangsta"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often ironic) A life in which one has to go through many struggles, like that of poor gangstas."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "ironic",
        "often",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Tupac Shakur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thug life"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Popularised by American rapper Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) in 1993.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thug lives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "thug lives"
      },
      "expansion": "thug life (countable and uncountable, plural thug lives)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I didn’t choose the thug life. It chose me.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 September 22, Wayne Johnson, “Thug Life – Why This Raised So Much Hell”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):",
          "text": "Too many young Black men have adopted this thug life pose.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Black Dot, Hip Hop Decoded: From Its Ancient Origin to Its Modern Day Matrix, page 165:",
          "text": "For all of these rappers claiming to live the thug life, there's really no difference.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Michael Jeffries, Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop, page 107:",
          "text": "Whether death refers to biological death or serves as a metaphor for oppression and marginalization (social death), the potential for collective reconciliation with death is linked to his identity as a nigga living thug life.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A life in which one has to go through many struggles, like that of poor gangstas."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "struggle",
          "struggle"
        ],
        [
          "poor",
          "poor"
        ],
        [
          "gangsta",
          "gangsta"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often ironic) A life in which one has to go through many struggles, like that of poor gangstas."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "ironic",
        "often",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Tupac Shakur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thug life"
}

Download raw JSONL data for thug life meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.