mug

noun

1. 1

   A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.

2. 2

   slangThe face.

   […] 'let him go, I tell you, or I'll be after breaking your ugly mug,' and with that I gave him a dig that knocked him into smithereens.

   When did ever a gentleman o’ fortune show his stern to that much dollars for a boosy old seaman with a blue mug — and him dead too?

3. 3

   slangThe mouth.

   Shut your mug!

4. 4

   slangA gullible or easily cheated person.

   He's a gullible mug – he believed her again.

5. 5

   slangA stupid or contemptible person.

6. 6

   slangA criminal.

7. 7

   slangA mug shot.

   Perhaps if I told you that there were forty arrests made in one day here, you will realize that with this small equipment available in the Sheriff's Office, it is very difficult to get mugs. These people are being mugged as they are being arrested but with an entirely inadequate force at work prints have not as yet been made.

verb

1. 1

   obsoleteTo strike in the face.

   Madgbury showed game, drove Abbot in a corner, but got well Mugg'd.

   1857, "The Leary Man", in Anglicus Ducange, The Vulgar Tongue And if you come to fibbery, You must Mug one or two,

   "Suppose they had Mugged you?" / "Done what to me?" / "Mugged you. Slogged you, you know."

2. 2

   To assault for the purpose of robbery.

3. 3

   To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.

   The children weren't interested in sitting still for a serious photo; they mugged for the camera.

   Her dress is too obviously "costume," and Ford-Smith mugs too broadly for us to forget, as we should, that Katie is a theatrical invention.

   Taping an episode that pairs him with the veteran leading man Richard Roundtree in front of a live audience, Mr. Smith displayed a strong sense of comedic timing, mugged for the camera at will, improvised dialogue with alacrity […]

4. 4

   To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot of.

   Perhaps if I told you that there were forty arrests made in one day here, you will realize that with this small equipment available in the Sheriff's Office, it is very difficult to get mugs. These people are being mugged as they are being arrested but with an entirely inadequate force at work prints have not as yet been made.

   The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

5. 5

   slangTo learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.

adjective

1. 1

   archaicEasily fooled, gullible.

   "Great heavens! Is it?" Drummond helped himself to marmalade. "And to think that I once pictured myself skewering Huns with it. Do you think anybody would be mug enough to buy it, James?"

2. 2

   slangUninteresting or unpleasant.

   But anyways, I stayed back a second year and my papa was visiting when momma was opening de report card. Papa gave me de muggest moment in my life like.

   So... complaining about Bermuda being boring/mug on a constant does what exactly?

noun

1. 1

   slangMotherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")

Forms

plural

mugs

comparative

mugger

superlative

muggest

past tense

mugged

past participle

mugged

present participle

mugging

third person singular

mugs