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mugger

[muhg-er] / ˈmʌg ər /
NOUN
attacker
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Try telling that to the prolific garage rock musician Ty Segall, who sent VHS copies of his 11-song album, Emotional Mugger, to music critics at Pitchfork on Monday.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2015

If the Mugger, Siamese croc and Saltwater croc form a clade, this presumably originated in Asia before some lineages headed towards Australasia and the Indopacific.

From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2012

For racing sideways at times, Marfa inspired the nickname of "the Mugger."

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not desire that any children of thine should know that the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut took his only wound from a woman.

From The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard

Mugger had plates of armour, but even these could not have availed against it if he had been exposed to the fire.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison




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