What does mugger mean?

Definitions for mugger
ˈmʌg ərmug·ger

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. muggernoun

    a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)

GCIDE

  1. muggernoun

    A thief who takes property by threatening (or performing) violence on the person who is robbed; a person who commits a mugging; one who mugs. See mug, v. t.

Wiktionary

  1. muggernoun

    A street robber.

  2. muggernoun

    A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.

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  3. muggernoun

    A large crocodile Crocodilus palustris of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

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  1. mugger

    A mugger is a person who attacks and robs another person, typically in a public place. The crime they commit is referred to as mugging. This is often achieved by using a combination of intimidation, threat, or actual physical violence.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mugger in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mugger in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of mugger in a Sentence

  1. Boris Johnson:

    If this virus were a physical assailant, an unexpected and invisible mugger, which I can tell you from personal experience it is, then this is the moment when we are beginning to wrestle it to the floor.

  2. Lew Rockwell:

    If something is wrong for you or me, it is also wrong for the cop, the soldier, the mayor, the governor, the general, the Fed chairman, the president. Theft does not become acceptable when they call it taxation, counterfeiting when they call it monetary policy, kidnapping when they call it the draft, mass murder when they call it foreign policy. We understand that it is never acceptable to wield violence nor the threat of violence against the innocent, whether by the mugger or the politician.

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