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thugocracy
n. (context slang English) government by a group of thugs.
Usage examples of "thugocracy".
Might Iran be a culture, like so many others, that was too sophisticated for the one-man thugocracies like those next door in Iraq and Syria yet not sophisticated enough for a reasonably functioning and stable democracy?
President Reagan’s tolerance of the Doe thugocracy (a Voice of America relay station and a Firestone rubber plantation were located in Liberia, making President Doe a “bulwark against communism”) was cited as proof of how America was to blame for Liberia’s failure.