Yes, some will fairly argue that a mugger could have a gun and will kill you if put up a fight.
Amazingly, the mugger has actually been caught and the phone restored to its rightful owner.
Not that Walt was a mugger—as far as I know; but that's the pattern of the enclave.
The mugger turned grunting into the undergrowth as Krishna rose.
Now a mugger's sigh is the most suggestive sound in animal speech.
"My child, I heard nothing," said the mugger, shutting one eye.
She loses her eyesight year by year, and cannot tell a log from me—the mugger of the Ghaut.
Said a boatman, 'Get axes and kill him, for he is the mugger of the ford.'
The mugger opened his left eye, and looked keenly at the Adjutant.
"That little white child which I did not get," said the mugger, with a deep sigh.
1865, agent noun from mug (v.1).
noun