mugful.html - {n. phr.} A police photograph showing the arrested person's full face and profile. * /"Go over these mug shots," Sergeant O'Malley said, "and tell me if you find the person who held up the liquor store!"/

mugful.html - The victim of a mugging; a person who is or has been mugged. Etymology: Formed by adding the suffix -ee, denoting the person affected by an action, to the verb mug, 'to rob violently, especially in a public place'. History and Usage: The word has been used in US English (which tends to form nouns in -ee more freely than UK English) since the early seventies. With the increasing problem of street muggings in the eighties, and the difficulty of finding an alternative word for the victim, it has spread beyond the US to other parts of the English-speaking world. Have the muggees, the majority of whom are white, no right to be protected against muggers? Spectator 28 Nov. 1981, p.
4 After proving four were tougher than one the muggers drove off and the muggee went home to bed. Brisbane Telegraph 9 Apr. 1987, p. 14

mugful.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a a drinking-vessel, usu. cylindrical and with a handle and used without a saucer. b its contents.
2 sl. the face or mouth of a person.
3 Brit. sl. a a simpleton. b a gullible person.
4 US sl. a hoodlum or thug.

--v.

(mugged, mugging)
1 tr. rob (a person) with violence esp. in a public place.
2 tr. thrash.
3 tr. strangle.
4 intr. sl. make faces, esp. before an audience, a camera, etc.

a mug's game Brit. colloq. a foolish or unprofitable activity. mug shot sl. a photograph of a face, esp. for official purposes.

mugger n. (esp. in sense 1 of v.). mugful n. (pl. -fuls). mugging n. (in sense 1 of v.). [prob. f. Scand.: sense 2 of n. prob. f. the representation of faces on mugs, and sense 3 prob. from this]

mugful.html - v.tr.
(mugged, mugging) Brit. (usu. foll. by up) sl. learn (a subject) by concentrated study. [19th c.: orig. unkn.]

mugful.html - see MUG(1) ).

mugful.html - n.
a broad-nosed Indian crocodile, Crocodylus palustris, venerated by many Hindus. [Hindi magar]