Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who commits a mugging.
- n. One who makes exaggerated faces, as in performing.
- n. A large crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as muggar.
Wiktionary
- n. A street robber.
- n. A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.
- n. A large crocodile Crocodilus palustris of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.
GNU Webster's 1913
- The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.
- n. A thief who takes property by threatening (or performing) violence on the person who is robbed; a person who commits a mugging; one who mugs. See mug, v. t.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)
Etymologies
- Hindi magar, from Sanskrit makaraḥ, crocodile, of Dravidian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Truslove will be mugged on the way home from the party — all the more humiliatingly when he discovers that the mugger is a woman — and his experience and perspective will be central to the narrative.”
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“I was watching the film and thinking, 'This doesn't feel right,' and then at the end you see that the mugger is laughing, and has somehow been caught on camera.”
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“All the hugger and mugger is over the cubicle walls, which is fine this week.”
“The same policies that have destroyed our public services and infrastructure, as well as creating a mindless, self-centred society, where a drug taking mugger is reggarded as being morally equivalent to you or I, he’s not bad you understand – just different!”
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“The mugger was a figment of her imagination, the girl is real!!”
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“The mugger was a wanted criminal, so Cat gets a reward, and a front page article in the Daily News.”
“The helicopter then touches down so that the same man, known as a mugger, can dash in and use a syringe to administer a mild sedative to the animal.”
“Why is it that with all the "bail outs" I feel that I and my progeny are being continuously mugged and that the mugger is the government?”
“Back in July I had an encounter with a "mugger" I had been out on the water almost 4 hours with not a single bite.”
“At the top, as he was hanging up his coat in the passage, the zoological demonstrator, a young man from Oxford, who secretly regarded him as a blatant "mugger" of the very worst type, offered his heartiest congratulations.”
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Perponyms
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
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Junk
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A Swell Mob
Kinds of thieves.
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