brutes

noun

1. 1

   An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.

2. 2

   A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.

   “One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."”

3. 3

   (Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.