I'm going with Michael Smolensky's answer, since I heard that phrase from a brash loudmouth of an investment banker to mean in [greater] detail.. (Printers like me, who are the lowest form of animal life to bankers, wondered if the 'granular' meant wheat, bran, rye or just plain chaff...)
Definitions for thugging. Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word thugging. Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: thugging(Noun) thuggery; the behaviour of a thug.
The word THUG-LIFE came from the word Thuggie. The British colonized India and it was a group with in India who resisted the British and they were known as Thuggies ... The British used the word Thugs to refer to any group of outlaws defying oppression and exploitation of human life as labour.