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Mugging

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

n. An assault upon a person especially with the intent to rob.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place.

v. Present participle of mug.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A robbery; a taking of property by threatening (or performing) violence on the person who is robbed. See mug, v.

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

n. assault with intent to rob

Word Usage

"The Wall Street Journal editorialized about the "Avastin mugging," and Sen. David Vitter accused the FDA of "assigning a value to a day of a person's life.""

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

assault

Variant

mug

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

robbery holdup stickup

Verb Stem

mug

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

bugging chugging debugging drugging hugging lugging plugging shrugging slugging snugging