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.
noun. 1  To be known in a popular way for beating the shit out of people or stealing, anything illegal and not caught. 2  a rough, rugged, domineering individual; stud. 3  a thug who has no cares.  A person who does something against the rules without regret or remorse.