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hiphuggers (n.)[hiphuggers 词源字典]: also hip-huggers, "low-rise pants or skirt," 1966, from hip + agent noun from hug. So called because they are slung from the hips, not the waist. Earlier as the name of a cut of women's swimsuit (1963).[hiphuggers etymology, hiphuggers origin, 英语词源]
hugger-mugger: also huggermugger, "secretly," 1520s, one of a number of similar-sounding reduplicated words in use around this time and meaning much the same thing, including hucker-mucker, which may be the original of the bunch if the root is, as some think, Middle English mukre "to hoard up, conceal." Also compare Middle English hukmuck, late 15c., name of some sort of device for cleansing.
thuggery (n.): 1839, from thug + -ery. Also thugee, from the native Hindi name for the system of religious assassination practiced by the thugs.