[
US
/ˈməɡɝ/
]
[ UK /mˈʌɡɐ/ ]
[ UK /mˈʌɡɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)
How To Use mugger In A Sentence
- The helicopter then touches down so that the same man, known as a mugger, can dash in and use a syringe to administer a mild sedative to the animal. Craigdailypress.com stories
- Five years ago while walking near his London home he was attacked by muggers wielding machetes and suffered severe cuts to his hands.
- She struggled with her attacker but was thrown to the ground and the mugger ran off with her handbag.
- Socially, the fabric is often as fragmented as the physical one, with immigrants from rural areas or from abroad mixed hugger-mugger with some of the least privileged traditional citizens.
- If you feel you're missing out on watching tigers launch assaults on nilgai, or muggers ambushing chital as they bend down to drink, take heart.
- Yesterday, a pretty charity mugger came up to me and said she wanted to help the aged. Times, Sunday Times
- But the rest are all hugger-mugger, and I like them that way. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak on Interfictions 2
- She claimed that the real crime is that burglars and muggers usually get a light sentence.
- A mugger grabbed her handbag as she was walking across the park.
- After all, the mugger cannot be too surprised or upset if the muggee beats the snot out of him. Think Progress » VIDEO: The Extreme, Violent Rhetoric Of GOP Lawmakers