Definition of "ruffians" []

• Plural form of ruffian. (noun)

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• "Suppose an epidemic of garroting breaks out in the city of Philadelphia, as it did in the city of London a very few years ago; to tell me that I am to walk the streets of this city at night without any protection whatever from ruffians, is to state something to which I will never agree."
• "So-called ruffians or camp followers of the crusaders managed to breach the town walls."
• "The approaching sounds called the ruffians from the other part of the chamber."