- 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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After that earlier Warner mugging, I wrote about the “legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
Her resignation comes a day after she admitted that she told police she had lost her phone during a mugging on a night out but later found it had not been taken.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 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
When he isn’t mugging for Reed’s camera he vacillates between a stony-faced refusal to admit guilt and an approximation of remorse.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
Dill took one hand off the handlebars and flexed his arm, mugging.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Fed up with witnessing muggings in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana neighborhood, William Correia formed a volunteer group to patrol the streets and report robberies on social media.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Such was its poor reputation, it was dubbed "muggings underpass" by some.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
We don’t have data for every intervening year, but the surveys we have suggest roughly 30 fewer robberies and muggings per person, per year, for a decade.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
The chief justice asked, “How many muggings take place in the forest?”
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
New York without the garbage and muggings, it’s supposed to be.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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