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.
Thuggee or tuggee (Hindi: Nepali à¤ à¤à¥à¤à¥ á¹­haggÄ«; Urdu: Ù¹Ú¾Ú¯â; Sanskrit: sthaga; Sindhi: ÙºÙÚ³ÙØ ÙºÚ³â; Kannada: à² à²à³à² thakka) were the acts of Thugs, an organised gang of professional robbers and murderers. Thugs travelled in groups across the Indian sub-continent for six hundred years.