"mugging" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmʌɡɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-mugging.wav [US] Forms: muggings [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun}} mugging (plural muggings)
  1. A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place. Categories (topical): Crime Derived forms: Pascal's mugging Translations (a quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place): väkivaltainen ryöstö (Finnish), Raubüberfall [masculine] (German), Straßenraub [masculine] (German), Überfall [masculine] (German), زورگیری (zurgiri) (Persian), assalto [masculine] (Portuguese), го́п-сто́п (góp-stóp) [masculine] (Russian), atraco [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-mugging-en-noun-N1N8YpQC Disambiguation of Crime: 50 50

Verb

IPA: /ˈmʌɡɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-mugging.wav [US]
Rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} mugging
  1. present participle and gerund of mug Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: mug Categories (topical): Crime
    Sense id: en-mugging-en-verb-CEu1Yycg Disambiguation of Crime: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 37 63

Inflected forms

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