- present participle of mug.
mugging
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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
Too often, it looked like a regulatory mugging of children with rare diseases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
“It is funny that the heaviest of all awards is given by actors — ’us what we do, it means so much,’” he said, mugging ponderous emotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025
The UK government’s foreign travel advice says crime levels are relatively low in Rwanda, but there are cases of burglary, theft, bag-snatching and mugging in Kigali.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2024
And mugging for the cameras with Cinnamon the rat licking her nose.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
Such was its poor reputation, it was dubbed "muggings underpass" by some.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
An ex-convict who did nine years' jail for theft and street muggings in the 1980s, Prigozhin has emerged from the shadows to assume a high profile since Russia's Feb. 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
From Reuters ● Mar. 12, 2023
We don’t have data for every intervening year, but the surveys we have suggest roughly 30 fewer robberies and muggings per person, per year, for a decade.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
The chief justice asked, “How many muggings take place in the forest?”
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
New York without the garbage and muggings, it’s supposed to be.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
