mugged

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A conservative is someone who's bee mugged, a liberal is someone who's been arrested, and a libertarian is someone who's been arrested for shooting the mugger.

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  1. noun A heavy cylindrical drinking cup usually having a handle.
  2. noun The amount that such a cup can hold.
  3. noun Informal The human face.
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  • She could have been killed — mugged, as likely as not — anywhere in the neighbourhood and the body brought back here and the fire started to cover up the murder. —  Here Lies Gloria Mundy - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 61
  • They've never been mugged, therefore mugging must not ever happen.
  • When the mugger got mugged, the implausibility of the strategy was brutally exposed. —  Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
  • A conservative is someone who's bee mugged, a liberal is someone who's been arrested, and a libertarian is someone who's been arrested for shooting the mugger. —  British Blogs
  • Sort of like, when a person is being mugged, and they punch the mugger in the face; well the mugger isn't really the only one bringing violence to the street is he? in the New York Times, "9 / 11 has made us stupid." —  THE IRATE NATION
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