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mug

[muhg] / mʌg /


VERB
hold up
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Her daughter Shirley added: "Shirley has actually gifted me her childhood mug with her name on it."

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Her expressionless mug has been featured on countless toys, not to mention bowling balls, motor oil, a Fender Strat, a pricey Judith Leiber clutch, sanitary napkins and men’s underwear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

The bill’s Republican sponsors said once a mug shot spreads online, it creates a cloud of guilt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Because of the piecemeal approach to mug shots, rules and policies vary state to state and sometimes by police department, legal experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Felix worried she was going to deliver bad news, but she smiled and tapped her empty mug before heading to the coffee machine in the corner.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

The NHS advises pregnant women, external to keep caffeine intake below 200mg a day, about two mugs of filter coffee, as studies have linked it to low birth weight and other complications.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

You can find quirky kitty tchotchkes, funny feline-themed mugs and hats with cats on them, as well as a vast array of vintage pop culture items, clothing and jewelry sans cats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

I took the small appliances from the cupboards, then mugs and bowls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

I don’t use my Starbucks mugs to entertain, but that’s the only time Michael Sullivan and his husband pull them off the shelf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Mr. Heron nodded, and he and Tom Warrups left I picked up the beer mugs to clean them.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

The pervasive threat is a constant topic of conversation in a way that crime was when I was growing up: who had been mugged, whose apartment had been robbed, whose car had been stolen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

Bovino mostly mugged for the cameras, like the time he oversaw an invasion of an emptied MacArthur Park in July with the National Guard parked on Wilshire Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025

I told him I’d gotten mugged in Peshawar.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

Too often, it looked like a regulatory mugging of children with rare diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

I stand and Scrappy joins me in mean mugging Dalton.

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




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