mug
noun
a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
mugged
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past participleof mug.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof mug.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
mugnouna drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
Example Sentences
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Spencer Pratt wasn’t mugged by reality, but it literally burned his house down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Also: What kind of dingus gets mugged on Fifth Avenue?
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
Ultrapure-water projects are big, one-off beasts that everybody and his brother wants to build, so even the smart operators can watch their margins get mugged the minute capital spending gets a head cold.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
Bovino mostly mugged for the cameras, like the time he oversaw an invasion of an emptied MacArthur Park in July with the National Guard parked on Wilshire Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
A photo in a magazine might remind her of Carolines high school graduation, the way she’d mugged for the camera like she just knew this was the beginning of a fabulous adventure.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
