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mugged

verb as in hold up

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A mug to keep drinks hot longerGetting a hot beverage is a great excuse to go outside in the chill.

Put on your jackets, put your chairs in a circle a safe distance around the fire, and pass out the blankets and mugs.

For the first, offer up warm mugs of cider, tea, or hot toddies—since holding a fork with mittens on is an exercise in frustration.

A “sixth sense” awareness of where our hands are in space connects them to the mind, making it possible to open a door, pick up a mug, and pour coffee in total darkness based solely on what they feel.

I kept finding myself holding the mug up to my face simply to sniff the lovely aroma.

An 18-year-old man dressed as a clown mugged a pedestrian, striking him 30 times in the back and neck with an iron bar.

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

Instead, he was violently mugged on live TV by Senator John McCain.

The alley cat and her kittens would have mugged him already.

When it comes to health insurance, it seems a liberal is a conservative who has been mugged by an illness.

And Buller lit his candle and mugged at a German exercise till the supper-bell rang.

The professional thief is the 'mugged grafter'; his photograph and Bertillon measurements are known and recorded.

Wish I'd mugged it all up overnight; but I carn't get it straight in my 'ead.

Thinkin' of havin' yourself mugged and sendin' the result to somebody in a silver frame?

Each "con" was divided into two equal parts: the Duffer "mugged" up one; John the other.

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

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