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mugging

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈmʌɡɪŋ//

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

noun

  1. 1

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

    There have been three muggings in this street in the past week.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of mugpresent participle and gerund of mug

Forms

plural
muggings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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