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Mugger

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Same as muggar.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)

Word Usage

"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."

Equivalent

muggar muggur

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

robber

Variant

mug

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

robber

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

bugger hugger slugger

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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