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View definitions for mugging

mugging

noun as in assault and battery

Weak match

noun as in battery

noun as in charge

noun as in holdup

Strongest matches

Strong matches

noun as in robbery

noun as in stickup

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Example Sentences

Her resignation comes a day after she admitted that she told police she had lost her phone during a mugging on a night out but later found it had not been taken.

From BBC

Such was its poor reputation, it was dubbed "muggings underpass" by some.

From BBC

But there’s something deeply strange about his performance here, grinning and mugging with childlike wonder in a way that can only be read as disingenuous.

That annual event often produces widespread thefts and muggings, and there has been some concern such problems may occur at Madonna’s show.

When he isn’t mugging for Reed’s camera he vacillates between a stony-faced refusal to admit guilt and an approximation of remorse.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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