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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

Still, Pig gives Cage “the time and space to be sincere once again, a rare experience for him and a rewarding one for us,” a performance that “shows that underneath the lazy mugging to the cheap seats, he’s still a soulful and careful actor.”

From Eater

We see photographs of him with his arm around Joan Jett, two punks mugging for the camera.

Worse, all of this mugging business reminds Ross of when he was mugged as a child.

Van Straubenzee had been talking to Prince Harry on his mobile when the mugging happened at about 7.15pm in Albert Bridge Road.

The Wiesenthal Center has every right to build there and is the victim of a political mugging.

They are almost always closer to mugging and burlesque than to acting.

Her gang will be below playing cards or mugging-up or snoozing, and only two on deck seeing her home!

They were chortling, pointing at each other, mugging for the camera.

I do know a certain amount about harmony already; I have been mugging it up for the last three years.

The shotgun squad keeps the riots, the mugging, and all the humbug out.

Everyone admired Hill in a way, though the suspicion of “mugging” clung to him.

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

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