- present participle of mug.
mugging
Americannoun
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muggings
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mugging
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Outside in the streets, the cosplayers enjoyed mugging for the cameras or taking selfies and laughing at themselves and others while interacting with their favorite celebrities.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
After that earlier Warner mugging, I wrote about the “legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
In a statement, Haigh said she told police she had lost her phone during a mugging on a night out in 2013 but later found it had not been taken.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024
But there’s something deeply strange about his performance here, grinning and mugging with childlike wonder in a way that can only be read as disingenuous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
I stand and Scrappy joins me in mean mugging Dalton.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Such was its poor reputation, it was dubbed "muggings underpass" by some.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
And residents throughout the city say they are unsettled by a spike in robberies, muggings, carjackings and other property crimes, and they have placed the blame on Ms. Lightfoot.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
“How many muggings take place in the forest?”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
Yet again and again, they flag ticky-tacky, or even phantom, contact, and they overlook obvious muggings.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2016
New York without the garbage and muggings, it’s supposed to be.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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