mug shot
or mugshot
Also called headshot . an identifying photograph of a suspect or criminal, often one of a set showing a frontal view, a profile view, and a view of the back of the head.
any closeup photograph of someone's face.
Origin of mug shot
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Usually, it uploaded mug shots of residents arrested on charges of trespassing or drug possession.
“They Took Us Away From Each Other”: Lost Inside America’s Shadow Foster System | by Lizzie Presser, photography by Elinor Carucci for The New York Times | December 1, 2021 | ProPublicaMany of the documents have mug shots and pictures taken off social media showing people flashing gang signs.
Hackers post hundreds of pages of purported internal D.C. police documents | Peter Hermann, Dalton Bennett | May 13, 2021 | Washington PostTraditional facial recognition systems only compare photos to official photos from driver’s licenses, passports or jail mug shots.
Senators seek limits on some facial-recognition use by police, energizing surveillance technology debate | Drew Harwell | April 21, 2021 | Washington PostLast month, Vice published mug shots of women arrested in Australia also modified by Loughrey, both by adding color and changing facial expressions to show some of them smiling.
Vice published altered photos showing Cambodian genocide victims smiling. It unleashed an uproar. | Paulina Villegas | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostMaybe more importantly, if you click over to look at the image search results, there are no mug shots.
Why it’s okay for the Internet to “forget” some crimes | Aaron Pressman | January 25, 2021 | Fortune
To this day, Bush media maven Roger Ailes adamantly denies that he or the campaign had any role in the Willie Horton mug shot ad.
Beside the mug shot of McCollum was one of a man named Wayne Laws.
How the North Carolina GOP Made a Wrongfully Convicted Man a Death Row Scapegoat | Michael Daly | September 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen he turned himself in, he wore a smirk in his mug shot, and then he went out for ice cream with reporters in tow.
Vote for the (Alleged) Crooks! How Rick Perry, Chris Christie, and Scott Walker are Running While Under Investigation | Olivia Nuzzi | August 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter getting his mug shot taken, for example, he went out for ice cream.
In fact, after the mug shot was taken this week, Perry immediately went out for ice cream, which he boasted about on Twitter.
British Dictionary definitions for mug shot
informal a photograph of a person's face, esp one resembling a police-file picture
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