Heard on The Judges: "thug" eggcorn? tip of the slung?

[Wilson Gray]

Forty-ish, white male speaker describing a fight with his cousin:

"He starting throwing stones at the car. As I was pulling away, I
heard a big _thug_ hit the trunk of my car. He had threw a flashlight
and hit my car with it."


-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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