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mug

[muhg] / mʌg /


VERB
hold up
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The former first minister also told a podcast she would not visit Peter Murrell, 61, in prison and she felt like a "mug" for continuing to care about him.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

So to all you souvenir snobs, put that in your Starbucks mug and drink it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

Each send-up is funny for at least an entire minute, a lifetime when you’re watching Marlon’s Shorty mug for the camera.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

Instead of the one-click default to your laptop’s last opened tab, you opened Etsy and bought a ceramic mug from a maker you’d been following on Instagram.

From Salon May 27, 2026

I have a hunch that even this mug of cider is because of it.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Mostly cheap, guilty pleasures, from coasters to Christmas ornaments to, yes, shelves of Starbucks mugs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

Eight Le Creuset mugs were photographed in a drawer under what appears to be the kitchen counter and next to an oven.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

And then I just like to sit in silence while it’s still dark out, while sipping two mugs of coffee.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

Others have posted videos and photos on social media of themselves breaking Starbucks mugs.

From Barron's May 26, 2026

They had already put down their mugs of tea and half-eaten sandwiches.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Spencer Pratt wasn’t mugged by reality, but it literally burned his house down.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

Also: What kind of dingus gets mugged on Fifth Avenue?

From Salon Mar. 23, 2026

Ultrapure-water projects are big, one-off beasts that everybody and his brother wants to build, so even the smart operators can watch their margins get mugged the minute capital spending gets a head cold.

From MarketWatch Dec. 9, 2025

When the data value exists only in your pod, it is like the difference in the kind of attack one would get on a bank versus you getting mugged on the street.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2024

Meanwhile, in our homeroom row, fancy-pants Kaylee Vine and Nellie Abbott are making eyes at my shirt like it once mugged them in a dark alley.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

Outside in the streets, the cosplayers enjoyed mugging for the cameras or taking selfies and laughing at themselves and others while interacting with their favorite celebrities.

From Salon Jul. 31, 2026

She admitted telling police in 2013 she had lost her work mobile phone in a mugging, but later found it had not been taken.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

It all certainly casts a spell, but the narrative devolves into atmospheric mush interpolated with too many images of Hathaway mugging and posing.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2026

They teased the grand reopening with Instagram photos of Bella Hadid astride a horse and videos of influencer types mugging for the camera in 10-gallon hats.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2025

I stand and Scrappy joins me in mean mugging Dalton.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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