In most of the films, the gang pursues a scheme for quick riches or gets mixed up with neighborhood thugs.

Several neighborhood thugs had already begun to gather around him.

Later, he said all the assailants were "neighborhood thugs."

In the oldest Jim Crow tradition, a gang of young neighborhood thugs jumped to the conclusion that these black men, in a white part of town after dark, were a criminal threat.

Growing up on the streets of Paterson where his father, Anthony Bease, was killed, Rashidi and his younger brother, Kaisho, can recall the many occasions when they were forced to escape from neighborhood thugs.

Matt's father, Jack Murdock (David Keith), is a boxer and wants his son to hit the books instead of neighborhood thugs.

Evelyn Ortiz, Fernando's mother, said that a band of neighborhood thugs invaded a backyard pool party the family held last July, and attacked Fernando.

In an interview in "Rhyme and Reason," a new documentary film about the rap world, Mr. Wallace described himself as a former neighborhood thug who found a better way to live.

Trent Fitzgerald of PopCrush called it "a great rap ballad that could make the toughest neighborhood thug want to buy candy and flowers for his girlfriend."