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mugging

[muhg-ing] / ˈmʌg ɪŋ /
NOUN
assault and battery
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NOUN
holdup
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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

It all certainly casts a spell, but the narrative devolves into atmospheric mush interpolated with too many images of Hathaway mugging and posing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

He would know: His team’s 2025 report featured a photo of the Aerosmith frontman mugging alongside Rizer in his past life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

In a statement, Haigh said she told police she had lost her phone during a mugging on a night out in 2013 but later found it had not been taken.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

Dill took one hand off the handlebars and flexed his arm, mugging.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

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

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

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

New York without the garbage and muggings, it’s supposed to be.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood


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