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Meanings of mugging in English
Synonyms
Examples for "rob"
Examples for "rob"
1
You never rob from the working class area you're from; no way.
2
They said Beasley wanted to rob his victims and steal their identities.
3
This can rob the use of a number elsewhere on the ground.
4
Their intention probably was to rob and leave him in the desert.
5
I'd be happy to let him know you tried to rob us.
1
It said the group had been responsible for brutal attacks and robbery.
2
If they committed armed robbery at age 14 that's a good predictor.
3
Three men were arrested after an armed robbery in Dublin early today.
4
I did not find out this latter detail-thisrobbery,-untilsix months ago.
5
If you have any information regarding this robbery please contact Crime Stoppers.
1
Two men appeared in court yesterday charged with robbing four Dublin brothels.
2
That grave robbing probably wouldn't be good for her after her accident.
3
Tells how they work; the fined imposed for robbing a falcon's nest.
4
When you're robbing a bank you don't stop to count the change.
5
They think they can make more money selling drugs or robbing people.
1
The really great immediate universal emergency to-day in America is the holdup.
2
They were too well dressed, he decided, to be ordinary holdup men.
3
Ostensibly, the holdup is coming from the end of the movie studios.
4
Then it all started with the holdup of that Shiloh Tool outfit?
5
Three did, but the others fled, triggering rumors of an attempted holdup.
1
Witherow defended the use of blagging and subterfuge in the public interest.
2
In Britain, media industry sources said, blagging is usually illegal.
3
I got out of the blagging habit for a while.
4
I feel like I'm blagging it, to be honest.
5
I want to see plenty of blagging, loads of bumphing, and a good bit of blatching.
1
A stick-up man came along, and tried to hold up his stand.
2
There's something besides stick-up men worth a man's thinking about, little horse!
3
That building is known for its stick-up-its-ass board, but it's inscrutable.
4
Station, and they would finish off the day by moonlighting as stick-up artists.
5
You'll keep me remembering how much we've always despised conceited, stuck-up people?
Usage of mugging in English
1
Welch, however, sometimes goes a bit overboard with the shenanigans and mugging.
2
No need to be mugging up on briefs on the tribunal steps.
3
Funny, I hadn't even remembered the mugging until a few moments ago.
4
But it was our first time mugging for the camera, as well.
5
The conquerors of Milan were subjected to an elegant mugging by Blackpool.
6
She assigned Raley to canvass for surveillance tape of Mitchell Perkins's mugging.
7
Lurking around neighborhoods and waiting for a drug deal or a mugging.
8
I read about him at Vane's, mugging up poetry for that exam.
9
Actually, hang on - this bloody well could be an elaborate mugging.
10
He'd seen this reaction before in accident or mugging victims in the subway.
11
Or at least I thought it was a mugging at first.
12
And Boris Johnson's younger brother Leo can be seen mugging away.
13
Before long he is selling drugs, mugging suburbanites, carrying a gun.
14
A 13-year-old schoolboy was accused yesterday of mugging a Belfast pensioner.
15
If word got out about the mugging, his credibility was blown.
16
Sometimes I worry about somebody mugging me for money for drugs.
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Mugging through the time
Mugging across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common