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  • past participle of mug.
  • past tense form of mug.

mugged

VERB
hold up
Synonyms


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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

The terrific Nicolas Raskin mugged Rodrigo Bentancur early on and you took a note.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024

A photo in a magazine might remind her of Carolines high school graduation, the way she’d mugged for the camera like she just knew this was the beginning of a fabulous adventure.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff


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