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Mugger   /mˈəgər/   Listen
Mugger

noun
1.
A robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street).



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"Mugger" Quotes from Famous Books



... summer of 1846, when every body in England was crazy with railway gambling, I was sojourning on the banks of the Rohan, a small stream in one of the northwestern provinces of India. Here I first became acquainted, with the Mugger, or Indian crocodile. I had often before leaving England, seen, in museums, stuffed specimens of the animal, and had read in "Voyages and Travels," all sorts of horrible and incredible stories concerning them. I had a lively recollection ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various
... HUGGER-MUGGER. In its Shakspearian bearing may have meant secretly, or in a clandestine manner, but its nautical application is to express anything out of order or ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth


Words linked to "Mugger" :   mug, robber


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