- 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
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
Too often, it looked like a regulatory mugging of children with rare diseases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
I stand and Scrappy joins me in mean mugging Dalton.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Fed up with witnessing muggings in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana neighborhood, William Correia formed a volunteer group to patrol the streets and report robberies on social media.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Such was its poor reputation, it was dubbed "muggings underpass" by some.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
And residents throughout the city say they are unsettled by a spike in robberies, muggings, carjackings and other property crimes, and they have placed the blame on Ms. Lightfoot.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Yet again and again, they flag ticky-tacky, or even phantom, contact, and they overlook obvious muggings.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2016
New York without the garbage and muggings, it’s supposed to be.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
